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Regional Innovation Office

The Baltimore Region has been designated a federal Tech Hub, positioning our market to become a national leader in dual-use biomanufacturing and related innovation. GBC’s Regional Innovation Office (RIO) serves as the Hub’s central organizing platform, providing shared processes, collaboration mechanisms, and formal escalation and conflict resolution pathways that enable the region to act—and win—as one integrated market.

A leading innovation Hub

Baltimore is proud to have been designated a national Tech Hub by the Economic Development Administration (EDA). With this investment, we will catalyze commercialization of predictive healthcare technologies, improving equitable care delivery and national health outcomes. The region’s healthcare technologies will support clinical decision-making, bioethics, personalized medicine, new biologics, and therapeutics.

[The investment] will help grow a more equitable economy that will expand opportunity, lead to better outcomes for our residents and make us an internationally leading innovation hub”

—Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland

Our Partners

The Tech Hub represents a consortium of 48 business and technology leaders in the region.

Baltimore and seven surrounding counties, was selected as one of 31 cities or regions for the federal Tech Hubs Program, putting the area in line for a share of $10 billion in federal funding over five years, including $500 million appropriated for an initial round.

“In Phase 3, the Baltimore Region put forward a strategy that builds on the strengths that earned our Tech Hub designation and aligns them directly with the administration’s investment priorities. We clarified how our regional collaborations can deliver on national objectives through critical investments that accelerate growth and advance federal interests. We feel good about the effort our partners have undertaken together, work that strengthens our case for Baltimore in this and future funding opportunities.” ”

—GBC President and CEO Mark Anthony Thomas

Media Coverage

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The Greater Baltimore Committee

The Greater Baltimore Committee is the leading voice for the private sector in the Baltimore region, providing insightful economic and civic leadership to drive collective impact.

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