One of the reasons Corvallis is a hotbed for innovation is because of the creative people who live and work in Corvallis. In addition to our two major sources of innovation, Hewlett Packard and Oregon State University, we have a wealth of small spinoffs, spinups and spinouts that have resulted in very flexible companies that create some of the brightest technology applications being commercialized anywhere.

Harvard's Creativity Index is based on two main criteria, 1) Economic Performance and 2) Innovation Output.

Corvallis Metropolitan Area
Economic Performance Indicators
(from Harvard School of Business)

ViewPlus sees big potential in adding ink to embosser that prints for the blind

By BENNETT HALL
Gazette-Times business editor

With barely a week to go before the company's new product is scheduled to ship, the manufacturing department is smack in the middle of moving.

The old fabrication area is already cleared out, but the new one is still being set up. Employees are ferrying parts and equipment from one building to another on handcarts, and somebody dropped one of the finished units, cracking the housing.

Not that anyone seems concerned about all this chaos — that's just the price of success for ViewPlus Technologies.