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Patent Office Overseer Quits; Huge Backlog Faces His Replacement
September 11, 2009 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A top official at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has resigned, almost a full year before the end of his five-year contract, as the beleaguered agency tries to catch up with a massive backlog of patent applications. John Doll, the commissioner for patents since 2005, will leave the agency on Oct. 2, part of a management shake-up under new agency director David Kappos.
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Cleveland Civic Innovation Lab Investment in Ideas Pays Off
September 12, 2009 | Cleveland Plain Dealer
The modest success of a fund that seeds quirky ventures has its director thinking of a bigger stage. The Civic Innovation Lab, a six-year program of the Cleveland Foundation, has invested in an indoor park for mountain biking, an alternative-fuel station and a company that turns recycled bottles into cheese trays.
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Brookings Institute Links Up with University of Nevada at Las Vegas
September 9, 2009 | Las Vegas Sun
Things may be tough in Las Vegas now, but there’s hope if you look in the right places. That’s the assessment of Brookings Institution urban policy scholars Mark Muro and Robert Lang, who delivered a state-of-the-city lecture the day after the highly respected institute announced it was setting up shop at UNLV to serve the West
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Genius in a Dorm Room?: The Myth of the Young Entrepreneur
September 9, 2009 | MaRs (blog)
A new study challenges the myth of the typical entrepreneur as some incredibly gifted college kid who started their high-growth companies in their dorm rooms. The Kauffman Foundation’s study, The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur, sheds light on the average entrepreneur and their motivations after surveying 549 company founders of successful businesses.
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The Geography of Innovation
September 9, 2009 | Science Progress
In this paper, the focus is on the importance of President Barack Obama’s call for a new federal effort to support regional innovation clusters. We know now—from a solid record of state and
local achievements and academic research—that regional innovation clusters are a critical component of national competitiveness.
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