Execs stress education, training, tech transfer, immigration to Jobs Council

Better trained and educated workers – especially engineers – along with faster technology transfer from public labs to the private sector and an immigration plan helping foreign students to remain in the US headlined the shopping list of ways the government could help boost entrepreneurship and create more jobs.

So said a collection of nearly 40 private sector executives and entrepreneurs who met in Durham with the Austan Goolsbee, chair of the Council of Economic Advisors to President Obama, and members of the White House Jobs Council.

"We want to hear from you," said Goolsbee, who chaired the meeting at a packed conference room in the headquarters of advertising and marketing firm McKinney. After touring the American Underground new business incubator at the American Tobacco Historic District, Goolsbee and four other members of the Council huddled with the Triangle executives.

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