‘Discoveries’ highlights important research

Welcome to our annual special section, Discoveries: Universities, Labs & the Economy.

This section is a joint effort of the staffs at BizWest Media LLC’s three publications — the Boulder County Business Report, Northern Colorado Business Report and Wyoming Business Report.

It shines a spotlight on research at universities and federal laboratories in Colorado and Wyoming, which have a multibillion-dollar impact on the region from Laramie to Denver and Aurora, Fort Collins to Boulder, Golden to Greeley.

The names are powerful: the Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, the University of Colorado-Boulder, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the University of…