Higher education is the key to New York's economic revival.
At the Rockefeller Institute, over the last two years we've closely studied the role of higher education in promoting economic development and creating jobs across the country ...
the innovation economy the United States is developing relies for growth on things that aren't touched by those traditional strategies: on new ideas, technologies, processes and skills. Higher education institutions and systems are the key. They pack a double punch; they are the source of the new knowledge needed to produce high-paying jobs in the innovation economy -- and they are the key to developing a workforce prepared to take those jobs. ...
Across the country, higher ed is putting its research and educational power to work by developing new ideas, helping to deploy inventions for commercial use, educating potential entrepreneurs, helping businesses prepare workers for advanced tasks, and fostering a quality of life that is essential for economic growth. ...
But what matters more is higher education's potential impact on the economy we hope to have for the future. Nano could be a harbinger -- a trend-setter, not an outlier.
The paradigm that Nano represents -- high-level learning and technology, focused on ideas with commercial potential, and developed in a synergistic way that brings together researchers from the faculty and from business ...
Other services, such as financial support for patent and copyright applications, are helping entrepreneurs from the faculty and from the business world bring their new ideas to fruition. ...
By Thomas Gais
Published 12:01 a.m., Sunday, June 5, 2011
timesunion.com
Thomas Gais is director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the University at Albany.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/A-tutorial-in-innovation-1410064.php#ixzz1ONxunvja
the innovation economy the United States is developing relies for growth on things that aren't touched by those traditional strategies: on new ideas, technologies, processes and skills. Higher education institutions and systems are the key. They pack a double punch; they are the source of the new knowledge needed to produce high-paying jobs in the innovation economy -- and they are the key to developing a workforce prepared to take those jobs. ...
Across the country, higher ed is putting its research and educational power to work by developing new ideas, helping to deploy inventions for commercial use, educating potential entrepreneurs, helping businesses prepare workers for advanced tasks, and fostering a quality of life that is essential for economic growth. ...
But what matters more is higher education's potential impact on the economy we hope to have for the future. Nano could be a harbinger -- a trend-setter, not an outlier.
The paradigm that Nano represents -- high-level learning and technology, focused on ideas with commercial potential, and developed in a synergistic way that brings together researchers from the faculty and from business ...
Other services, such as financial support for patent and copyright applications, are helping entrepreneurs from the faculty and from the business world bring their new ideas to fruition. ...
By Thomas Gais
Published 12:01 a.m., Sunday, June 5, 2011
timesunion.com
Thomas Gais is director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the University at Albany.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/A-tutorial-in-innovation-1410064.php#ixzz1ONxunvja
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