April
- New Benchmarking Reports: Cyberstates and Rich States, Poor States
- Two new national economic benchmarking reports were recently released.The annual Cyberstates study, produced now by TechAmerica, examines national and state trends in technology industry (primarily information technology-related sectors) employment and growth. Despite glum economic news, the technology industry had a pretty good year in 2008,...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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April 10, 2009
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- New Approaches to Measuring Innovation
- Last year’s report from the Department of Commerce’s Advisory Committee on Measuring Innovation (chaired by the Kauffman Foundation's Carl Schramm) has stimulated a lot of additional research on the thorny issues of how best to track innovation at the business, community, region, and national levels....
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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April 10, 2009
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- Going High-Tech in West Virginia
- Business and political leaders in West Virginia are getting serious about nurturing technology and innovation in the Mountain State. TechConnect West Virginia, the state’s advocate for technology-based economic development, has unveiled a new blueprint for strengthening the state's technology sector. West Virginia’s economy has traditionally...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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April 10, 2009
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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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- House Republican Budget Plan
- For several weeks, Republicans in the US House of Representatives have been soundly criticizing President Obama’s proposed FY2010 budget as fiscally irresponsible. But, without a detailed budget plan of their own, Republicans were unable to present a comprehensive alternative. Last week, House Republicans unveiled their...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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April 06, 2009
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Capitol Hill
- Bloggers Say Innovation & Entrepreneurs Key to Job Creation
- What happens when you put a bunch of economics bloggers in the same room? A significant amount of discussion about speeding up the economic recovery process. Led by Growthology’s Tim Kane, a senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, some of the country’s leading...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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April 06, 2009
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- How to Revive Health Care Innovation
- The Obama economic recovery plan includes significant funds to help spur innovations, such as electronic health records, in the health care industry. Program managers in Washington would be well-advised to check out a new book, The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, from...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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April 06, 2009
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Health Care
- The Promise and Perils of Self-Employment
- While recent booms in entrepreneurship and self-employment have generated many benefits for the American economy, these trends are not necessarily a “free lunch” according to a new article in City Journal, a publication of the Manhattan Institute. Patterns of self-employment have changed in recent years....
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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April 06, 2009
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- Entrepreneurship in Education
- Last week, I argued in favor more high-skilled immigration to bringadditional entrepreneurial talent into the country for the near future.Today, I want to focus on an urgent policy issue that needs to beaddressed to produce results over the long-run. Improvements ineducation are essential to equipping...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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April 06, 2009
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Education
- E=R... Canadian-style
- I saw this tweet yesterday afternoon from @unleashingideas: "...long term, economic growth will be generated from private sector, innovation and entrepreneurship..." PM Harper That's an awful big message to pack into 140 characters or less. It refers to a recent interview that Canadian Prime Minister...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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April 02, 2009
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Global
