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Mar 21, 2012
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Tech Trends – article picks from SSTI staff, Week of 03/19/12

U.S. Angel Investment More Diffuse than Venture Capital, According to Report Though California remains the leading state for U.S. angel investment, 79 percent of angel deals and 70 percent of angel dollars were invested outside of the state in 2011, according to the first edition of the new Halo Report. The report, produced by the Angel Resource Institute, Silicon Valley Bank and CB Insights, also found that the median size of angel and angel group syndicate rounds increase

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Mar 15, 2012
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Tech Trends – article picks from SSTI staff, Week of 03/12/12

FedDev Ontario Investment Connecting STEM Grads with Businesses A contribution of $4.2 million CAN ($4.2 million USD) by FedDev Ontario will be used to place 320 recent graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields with businesses in a competitive six-month internship and mentorship program. The idea is to provide graduates with real world opportunities to develop business skills and experience. The grads will be matched with small- and medium-

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Mar 8, 2012
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Lack of Government Support Hurts U.S. Clean Tech Industry, According to Report

Countries that put significant resources into supporting clean tech innovation are rewarded with more emerging and commercialized clean tech companies, according to Coming Clean: The Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2012 — a new report from the Clean Tech Group, LCC. The U.S. placed fifth out of 38 countries, with the top score for several indicators including research and development funding, general innovation drivers (i.e., Entrepreneurial culture and “general innovation

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Mar 7, 2012
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Pair of Reports Outline Actions for States to Accelerate Entrepreneurship

The Kauffman Foundation, as mentioned in this article, is a partner with Startup Weekend, which CTC also sponsors. Startup Weekends are intense 54-hour events which focus on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. Startup Weekends’ next event is in Stamford, March 30-April 1, 2012. By reducing legal and regulatory barriers to startups, states can harness the power to encourage the formation and gro

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Feb 23, 2012
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Technology-Based Overview of President Barack Obama’s FY13 Budget Request

via SSTI, Federal Budget Special Issue… “Each year, SSTI provides Digest readers with a comprehensive review of technology-based economic development spending in the the president’s federal budget request. The year’s edition includes proposed FY13 spending on R&D, STEM education, manufacturing, broadband, small business support, technology transfer, entrepreneurship, innovation workforce initiatives and more. The full report is available for download in pdf format (561 kb). P

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Feb 1, 2012
1 min

SSTI’s Staff Picks 1/31/12 (Collection of Articles on Tech Trends)

GAO Report Finds Overlap in Federal STEM Programs To avoid potential duplication, the GAO recommends government STEM programs need to be guided by a robust strategic plan. Read more … Survey Finds Youth Unlikely to Enter STEM Fields At the same time as the reported government overlap, a recent study finds 60 percent of young people surveyed named at least one factor preventing them from pursing work in this field. Read more … State Funding for Higher Ed Continues to Decli

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Feb 1, 2012
2 min

‘High-Tech Concentration of State Economies’ Study Brings Mixed Results

The most recent edition of the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators presents some mixed results on the significance of high-tech companies and jobs in the U.S. economy. In 2003, 8.17 percent of all U.S. businesses were classified as high-tech, based on NAICS codes. By 2008, that share had risen to 8.52 percent. The increasing representation of high-tech companies in the economy was driven by a rate of high-tech business formation that kept growing

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Feb 1, 2012
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U.S. Government, Universities Must Partner to Address Shifts in International Competitiveness, Repor

A new report from the Center for American Progress contends that increasing globalization, connectivity, access and acceleration of technology has caused an urgent need for investment in innovation. To resolve this issue, the authors believe that the U.S. government and institutions of higher education must work in partnership “not only to accelerate its investments in research and innovation but also to continually reevaluate and redesign the traditional mechanisms (e.g., fu

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