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Rare Hits and Heaps of Misses to Pay For
November 9, 2010 | New York Times
Research, in any field of science, is not the risk-free business that might easily be supposed from the confident promises of scientific spokesmen or the daily reports of new advances. Basic research, the attempt to understand the fundamental principles of science, is so risky, in fact, that only the federal government is willing to keep pouring money into it. It is a venture that produces far fewer hits than misses.
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A Boom Based on Microchips
November 3, 2010 | Washington Post
The economic downturn has hit Upstate New York as hard as anywhere in the country, but an unusual high-tech endeavor taking shape here could involve billions of dollars in manufacturing investment and possibly thousands of new jobs.
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Venture Northwest Seeks to Boost Oregon University Commercialization
November 3, 2010 | The Oregonian
Oregon's entrepreneurial economy needs a wake-up call, according to Portland venture capitalist Diane Fraiman, who looks to the state's universities to spawn a new generation of innovation. Oregon startups have rarely produced big-time successes, and those that have, have moved out of state in search of more investment or more experienced leadership.
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Gene Patent Ruling Raises Questions for Industry
November 2, 2010 | New York Times
When the Justice Department declared in a court filing late Friday that genes should not be eligible for patents because they are products of nature, Harold C. Wegner, an influential patent lawyer in Washington, did not mince words. “Eric Holder Hijacks the Patent System, Flunks Patents 101,” Mr. Wegner wrote in an e-mail to 1,250 people, referring to the attorney general.
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Recession Widens the Gap between Cities with Tech Assets and those Without
November 4, 2010 | Wisconsin Technology Network
The gap between high-growth cities and metro areas that are struggling to recover from the recession was all-too-apparent in Milken Institute's 2010 report, “Best-Performing Cities.” It paints a picture of cities that are slowly but surely diversifying their economic base to include more technology jobs and businesses - and those that were caught flat-footed when manufacturing, real estate and retail took a tumble.
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