July 10, 2010 | Business Week

China's focus on science and technology is relentless, and it's occurring at all levels of its society. Its labor pool is becoming increasingly sophisticated, its leadership is focused on innovation, and the country is adopting policies designed to pressure U.S. firms to transfer their technology. The trend is causing increasing worry in Washington, but there are five reasons why China may yet succeed:

July 10, 2010 | ech irt

Former Intel CEO Andy Grove has penned a long and thought-provoking piece for Bloomberg, where he takes the surprising-for-Silicon-Valley position that offshoring jobs to China is bad, and the US government should get involved with protectionist policies on American jobs.

July 7, 2010 | Kauffman Foundation

The oft-quoted American sports slogan, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing!” could well be attributed to the economic importance of firm formation in creating jobs. A relatively new dataset from the U.S. government called Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) confirms that startups aren’t everything when it comes to job growth. They’re the only thing.

July 12, 2010 | Roll Call

America’s economic recovery as well as its ability to stay ahead of the cutting edge of global technological development are both becoming increasingly centered on the future of patent reform. Patents play a vital role in incentivizing the risk-taking inherent in technological development.

July 9, 2010 | Fortune Magazine

While banks have been beaten up during the financial reform regulation process (and well before, and deservedly so) there has been remarkably little attention paid to the travails of what one investment banker told us he calls "The Great Enablers" university endowments and pension funds that were all too happy to squeeze more and more risk into their portfolios for the promise of fat returns.