The AgePower Tech Search was featured in a recent StarTribune Business article, "Global Aging Presents Opportunity: How to Make Aging a Minnesota Innovation Advantage," co-authored by Ernest Grumbles and Eric Schubert. Grumbles is co-founder of MOJO Minnesota,  a cooperative working to boost entrepreneurship and Minnesota's cultuer of innovation. Schubert is vice president of communications and public affairs for Ecumen, a nonprofit senior housing and services company.

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It’s called the Silver Tsunami, Agequake, Longevity Economy and Age Wave. But no matter the moniker, unprecedented global aging is a wide-open door for innovation, and Minnesota is uniquely positioned to forge partnerships that deliver it.

We’re all aging consumers. Local companies such as Healthsense and Anser Innovation are inventing in this space, but nearly every business works in aging, even if they don’t yet know it. The world’s only growing demographic is people 60-plus. And in the United States, the 60-plus cohort is the fastest growing. Read more on the Star Tribune website…