Gubernatorial candidates: how to nourish innovation

It’s good for our local economy when there are spinoffs from technology development at the universities. One famous example, of course, is the development of the technology that led to Google at Stanford. That’s been a huge boon for Stanford, Palo Alto and the state of California. We want to successfully leverage intellectual property developed at universities.

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I’ve proposed a number of very targeted ways to help these industries — targeted R&D incentives, tax breaks. We think this suite of proposals is tailor-made for what we do well, which is to build small businesses around innovation.

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Tech companies, like all companies, can’t start or grow without talent, so we need to develop more talent that’s available to tech companies throughout the state, including outside of urban areas. One way to do that is to expand higher education opportunities throughout our state through community colleges, tech colleges and branch campuses.

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The single most important thing overall that state government can do for the tech industry is produce people with intellectual capability to produce new products.

That’s why giving our children an opportunity to be proficient in science, technology and math is probably the single most important thing our state can do to help the state technology industry.

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By Brier Dudley

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