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Development Officials Aim to Boost Economy Through Technology
September 15, 2010 | Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The Obama administration is taking a new approach to economic development by emphasizing innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration with state economic developers and the private sector, a U.S. Commerce Department official said Tuesday.
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NCSU: Innovation Will Rouse Economy
September 18, 2010 | Raleigh News & Observer
N.C. State University has its own stimulus plan for the lackluster state economy: a new initiative to double the number of private companies it spins off every year, and to boost by 50 percent annually the amount of grants and contracts its faculty and staff win to fund research.
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U.S. Innovation, Feeling the Pull from Abroad
September 16, 2010 | Washington Post
The connection between American innovation and manufacturing, which for generations created U.S. jobs, has been unraveling under the pressures of globalization, and the light-bulb industry may be a prime example.
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The Global Education Race
September 19, 2010 | Tech Crunch
Vivek Wadhwa, Visiting Scholar at the School of Information at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University, shares his take-away from participation in The Economist's summit on “The Ideas Economy: Human Potential – When the world grows up”
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