FINANCING INNOVATION
Michael Gurau, a frequent SP contributor covering the VC beat, recounts his four-hour session with Secretary Vilsack on what the government can do to bring risk capital to underserved rural regions.
ENERGY INNOVATION
A new CAP report outlines how to build low-carbon innovation networks that are greater than the sum of their parts.
INNOVATION
Federal programs work to incentivize high-tech venture capital investment in under-served regions and emerging sectors.
INNOVATION CLUSTERS
The president and his top officials showed their commitment to federal support for place-based innovation strategies at Cleveland State University last week.
INNOVATION
We asked the authors of the new book Engines of Innovation about how we can maximize the potential of our nation’s great universities to contribute to the innovation economy.
Energy Innovation
Recent investments in offshore wind projects off the East Coast put wind in the sails of a nascent regional innovation ecosystem.
INNOVATION
Jonathan Sallet explains the need to move place-based technology innovation policy forward, especially in difficult economic times.
INNOVATION
Older industrial areas such as Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Akron, and Youngstown are places with substantial infrastructure and a proud industrial heritage that are struggling to redefine themselves in the global economy. Entrepreneurship and innovation are the most viable strategies for the economic future of the region.
INNOVATION
We can ensure that scientists, engineers, and taxpayers alike get the most out of federal support for basic research and development by taking what researchers know about moving ideas from the lab to the market and linking universities, business, and the government in an effort to grow regional economies.
The Department of Energy today drew upon the recommendations of an Obama administration-wide effort to boost regional economic development, announcing that DOE would team up with six other federal agencies to create an energy-related regional innovation cluster dedicated to developing [...]
INNOVATION
The budget request for fiscal year 2011 that the Obama administration released on Monday includes foundational investments that will help the United States remain the leader among innovative nations.
Investing in innovation is a critical component of long-term economic prosperity, and the president’s FY2011 budget request includes two notable provisions that will support regional science and technology clusters. The administration is asking for $75 million “to support the creation [...]
Jonathan Sallet, co-author of the report, “The Geography of Innovation: The Federal Government and the Growth of Regional Innovation Clusters,” testifies today before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation. He explains in his written testimony that Congress should [...]
INNOVATION
Rekindling an innovation economy focused on regional clusters would go far to making Americans productive and optimistic again.
INNOVATION CLUSTERS
The federal government can assume a vital role in which it frames critical national challenges, facilitates the flow of information and expertise to and between regions, and helps finance, in a competitive and leveraged fashion, valuable activities that innovation clusters would otherwise be unable to undertake.
INNOVATION
Revolutions in economics, ecology and knowledge systems will alter the business model of today’s science parks. Here’s how it all might play out.
Legislation reauthorizing and updating the Small Business Innovation Research program and Small Business Technology Transfer programs has now cleared the House of Representatives and the Senate, but considerable differences between the House and Senate versions will require significant reconciliation efforts [...]
Getting a piece of the biotechnology industry to boost a state economy is a great idea, but it’s complicated. Successfully incubating a regional biotech cluster requires more than building million-dollar laboratories and hoping top researchers appear, Shaila Dewin reports in [...]
The Center for American Progress, in partnership with the National Academies, is sponsoring a conference this Wednesday, June 3rd on the role of innovation clusters in spurring economic development, creating new jobs, and building a competitive American economy for the [...]
INNOVATION CLUSTERS
ASU over the past six years has engaged in a significant institutional transformation. One of the results is the SkySong Innovation Center, a nucleus for a community of entrepreneurs dedicated to innovation and learning.
Science Progress and American Progress's Doing What Works project teamed up to produce a set of policy proposals that the Obama administration and Congress can adopt to reinvest in the building blocks of American science, innovation, and economic competitiveness. Read the overview of the five reports.
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