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06 Oct 08

AURP Releases National Strategy for Building America's Communities of Innovation

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.

15 Apr 06

the eyeopener online: "Higher Learning Inc."

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But what if we take Drucker's words in a different way? What if by distance learning, Drucker meant not co-op and correspondence courses, but an increasing sense of detachment? What if Drucker was speaking not so much about the crumbling of physical ivory towers, but of symbolic ones? And what if, as much as governments and big business, students are the ones to blame?
Apathy, he says, is rampant. He recounts an incident from last year when a small group of students protesting the second inauguration outside Van Hall were beat up by police officers. "Nobody cared," he says. "They all felt the students deserved it. They said 'It disturbs classes.' That's the point!" What's left him bitter is not the quality of his professors or the courses he studied, but what he sees as an overemphasis on practicality amongst fellow scholars. "The attitude of so many students is: 'When am I ever going to use this again?'"
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- "Philosophy asked the questions I was asking myself," he says. "It's helped me develop an appreciation for the pursuit of knowledge."
  And yet this pursuit too often gets crowded out in today's universities by students looking to pad their resumes and "network."
- In Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs argues that every civilization has a purpose and that for North Americans, that purpose is mass employment. She notes that this can be seen in everything, from corporations and governments ignoring serious environmental issues because it will cost jobs, to the panicked hysteria of fourth-year students as they compete and scramble for summer internships.