Policy Forum Blog
- Multiagency Initiative to Create Energy-Related Regional Innovation Cluster
- Seven federal agencies will
work together to leverage funding and resources to promote regional growth
through an
Energy Regional Innovation
Cluster (E-RIC).
The E-RIC will work to
disseminate new technologies into the local marketplace and share best practices
with the public and private sectors. The cluster...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 15, 2010
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- Grow the Economy... Support Entrepreneurs
- New firms create more jobs--if they survive--than older, established firms. That's a pretty important message with the national unemployment rate at 8.5% and on the rise for six consecutive months. That translates to 13.2 million people out of work (according to seasonally adjusted figures released...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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April 08, 2009
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- Category:
General
- A “Competency Model” for Entrepreneurship?
- If you think entrepreneurship is as much an art as a science, you might have some second thoughts about a “competency model” for entrepreneurship. But, the model does offer a useful way to understand the various skills that entrepreneurs need to succeed. Developed by the...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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on
February 16, 2009
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- Category:
Education
- Tax Employment?
- There are a number of steps that must be taken to contain unemployment and revive a slowing economy. This week's essay suggests a good place to start might be payroll tax cuts. Here is the lead: Employment in the U.S. has been in a free fall....
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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on
February 09, 2009
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- Category:
Tax Code
