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Public-private effort aims to boost budding entrepreneurs

The governor’s LaunchTN initiative prioritizes creation of such clusters in high-tech fields, a strategic focus that could make Tennessee home to a variety of emerging industries.

New technologies, materials and processes are changing our lives more quickly today than ever — moving information faster, making vehicles safer and more efficient, even adding new words to our everyday speech.

If we need information quickly, we "Google" it. That particular innovation is now a company valued at $200 billion, but Google Inc. wasn’t conceived by two Stanford University professors or even two Silicon Valley executives. It began when two Stanford graduate students — Sergey Brin and Larry Page — had the smarts and drive to develop a great idea in their dorm rooms and the confidence to get $100,000 in seed money from Sun Microsystems co-founder (and Stanford alum) Andy Bechtolsheim.

Thom Mason

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