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Innovations in aerospace, country. ag tech, bioscience, clean tech, computing, And as Dallas Heltzell reports in this edition energy, health care, the Internet, so ware and of Colorado Tech,16,000 tech businesses other areas create an exciting time for business added 6,700 new jobs in 2016, with 196,651 and individuals. workers in tech-related elds at the end of Equally frenzied is the pace at which 2016 — about 7.8 percent of the overall state the tech sector is expanding in Colorado, workforce. from the ag-tech and computer hotbed of ose trends and more are why the JEFF NUTTALL Northern Colorado to the Internet and Colorado Technology Association teamed PUBLISHER so ware sectors of the Boulder Valley, with BizWest Media LLC — publisher from high-tech clusters in downtown of BizWest, a business journal covering Denver and the surrounding metropolitan Boulder, Broom eld, Larimer and Weld area, to Colorado Springs’ growing tech counties — to produce this third edition of sector, technology jobs are in abundance in Colorado Tech. is publication highlights Colorado. the industries and trends that constitute the Tech helps drive the state's economy, and state’s technology scene, including listings national and global media outlets regularly of about 2,500 of the state’s tech-based report on the state as a growing alternative to companies. Silicon Valley, Boston or other established tech As with any research project, Colorado CHRIS WOOD havens. Tech is a work in progress. If we missed your PUBLISHER Boulder gave birth to Techstars, an company, or if your listing is incorrect, please accelerator that has developed a global brand visit www.coloradotech.biz to submit your with hundreds of companies having gone correct data. through the immersive entrepreneurial Amidst the innovation and growth at your experience. Colorado seems to add another own company, we hope you enjoy this third incubator or accelerator at every turn. Startup edition of Colorado Tech. Weeks have emerged in Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, Longmont and Je Nuttall and Christopher Wood are Loveland, providing a chance for cities to managers of BizWest Media LLC. ey can be showcase their innovative and entrepreneurial reached at [email protected] and cwood@ cultures. bizwest.com. 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