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Boston’s next mayor needs to nurture small tech and health companies

While this ecosystem has created thousands of jobs and dozens of new medicines and technologies that have changed peoples’ lives, its future is not guaranteed as other regions attempt to capture a piece of our success.

Empowering Locals to Drive Economic Prosperity

We must recognize that the world does not
simply
identify with local units of government, individual
counties or even the entire state

States and metros to watch: Examples from which Wisconsin can learn

We can love it here and still admit we don’t know everything.

New Zealand just abolished software patents. Here’s why we should, too.

Patents on software don’t work.

State considers deferring student loans for young entrepreneurs

Specifics of the plan are still taking shape, but it may lower repayments of loans administered by the authority to less than $100 a month over a period of two years.

MI joins NY, TN in Taking a Regional Approach to Economic Development

The plan will divide the state into 10 zones with the intent of empowering local and regional partners to develop a consensus vision and implementation plan for economic success.

Fla. governor’s bid to lure business raises ire in Mass.

"Governor Scott’s efforts to lure Massachusetts business owners to Florida in August strikes me as somewhat climate-challenged, in addition to being misguided"

How did Estonia become a leader in technology?

Its 1.3m citizens pay for parking spaces with their mobile phones and have their health records stored in the digital cloud. Filing an annual tax return online, as 95% of Estonians do, takes about five minutes. How did the smallest Baltic state develop such a strong tech culture?

Startup Colorado Launches $200K Fund to Support Entrepreneurship Events

The organization will issue grants to Colorado organizations planning events, seminars and contests that bring together startup communities, particularly those in the Denver-Boulder region, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins

Wallonia, Belgium, Success Driven by a Focus on Industry Cluster Excellence

The concept of company networks (clustering) has gained ground world-wide as a new modus operandi of the productive fabric and as a source of innovation.