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States step up push to lure innovators and investors. Increasingly, local prosperity depends on staying at the forefront of new industries and ideas.

Georgia’s effort symbolizes an emerging focus by state governments on the economics of innovation. From Indiana to Arizona, a similar notion is taking root: in a competitive and fast-changing world, local prosperity depends on having strategies in place to stay at the forefront of new industries and ideas.

By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Full Story: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0226/p02s01-usec.html?s=hns

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NGA Winter Meeting Convenes in Washington

Business, Academic Leaders Share Expertise in Innovation

Governors from nearly 48 states, territories and commonwealths gathered here today for the Opening Plenary session of the 2007 National Governors Association (NGA) Winter Meeting. The session introduced a primary theme of the meeting: how states can compete more effectively in the global economy by promoting innovation.

The Opening Plenary Session reflects the theme of NGA Chair Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s Innovation America initiative http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.751b186f65e10b568a278110501010a0/?vgnextoid=e34e2bad2b6dd010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=92ebc7df618a2010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD , which focuses on improving science, technology, engineering and math education; enabling the post-secondary education system to support state’s high growth industries; and encourage business innovation through supportive state policies. This national initiative is designed to spur governors to enact real, tangible statewide solutions to enhance the economic capacity of states—and the nation.

Full Story: http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.6c9a8a9ebc6ae07eee28aca9501010a0/?vgnextoid=a7d77131fa5e0110VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD

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Governors Focus on STEM Education, Communicating Innovation

On the second day of the National Governors Association (NGA) Winter Meeting, governors focused on the importance of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in creating a competitive global economy.

Full Story: http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.6c9a8a9ebc6ae07eee28aca9501010a0/?vgnextoid=09e77131fa5e0110VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD

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