America's challenge is to turn innovation into jobs here at home. Maine Technology Asset Fund
| August 25, 2008 |  View for printing |
What about encouraging winners from the bottom up?
States -- including Maine -- are taking the lead. Innovation is the new buzz word.
Everyone likes to talk about it. Innovation means introducing new products or improved methods of completing a task. It can be a stronger, lighter composite material for racing yachts, or the ability to pay your bills online.
Innovation has been on the cover of Business Week, cited as the answer to China's economic challenge to the United States and it's a part of each candidate's stump speech -- but that is where the discussion ends.
If innovation is going to drive American competitiveness, the real challenge is how to turn it into jobs.
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