AURP Releases National Strategy for Building America's Communities of Innovation - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Oct 08
  

  Yule Heibel

  AURP (Association of University Research Parks) "offers a series of urgent recommendations for the U.S. Government, so that it can more precisely support American innovation and American innovators with both economic and policy-based changes." (See article for proposal targets.)
  
  Does this apply to university research parks in Canada, too?
  
  Interesting references to the importance of place and the creative class.
  
  See this PDF for "The Power of Place": http://www.aurpcanada.ca/pdf/AURP%20The%20Power%20of%20Place_Final.pdf (via www.aurpcanada.ca)

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  • From establishing the first research park in
    the world, to building world-class research universities and federal
    laboratories while pioneering technology transfer and patent reform for
    public-private research partnerships, the U.S. has led the world in attracting
    research talent, funding scientific advances, and commercializing new
    discoveries.
  • The United States is losing ground competitively. The ambitious entrepreneurs
    and scientists who are willing to invest time and money into an idea are being
    lost at a staggering pace to other countries. These foreign governments provide
    incentives for this U.S. human capital to uproot and move. These individuals
    find that the challenge of surviving in a foreign country is outweighed by the
    tremendous economic benefit these foreign communities provide.
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  • • At the present time, the U.S. is losing ground because we do not provide the
      Place for the Creative Class to prosper. We have left the responsibility
      of creating Place to local communities, many of which cannot bear the
      speculative burden of creating Place without governmental financial
      support.
    • Our proposal targets the following:
    • · Creating American Innovation Zones to drive the creation of modern research
      and development collaboration;

    • · Expanding the availability of visas for skilled researchers; and
      

      
      

      
      · Encouraging in-migration of foreign start-ups through “soft landing”
      programs.
      

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