I prepared the following document as my testimony to the State Science and Technology Strategic Plan Joint Study Commission, meeting in Columbus on 30 November 2011. It's going to be available on their website, but I decided to replicate it here. … [Read more...]
Immigration and Competitiveness
September 28, 2011 by
Back in June, I blogged about immigration as it affects student entrepreneurs at Georgia Tech. Apparently that qualified me as an expert on immigration policy! Someone at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce noticed what I'd written and invited me to a forum in Washington yesterday on "Immigration and American Competitiveness." … [Read more...]
M2M and the Internet of Things
September 26, 2011 by
Last Tuesday, September 20th, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and Numerex invited me to address the Second International M2M Standardization Meeting as the keynote speaker for their dinner at the Carter Center. I didn't know anything about M2M, but that's never stopped me from speaking before! So I started doing a little … [Read more...]
Georgia Forward
September 1, 2011 by
For my column this month, I wanted to talk about the Georgia Forward conference that was held at Callaway Gardens in mid-August. From their website, "Georgia Forward is an independent, non-partisan organization working to improve the state of Georgia by engaging business, political, academic and civil leaders to collaboratively shape a statewide … [Read more...]
Tom Sawyer’s Fence
July 1, 2011 by
There is an old Vulcan proverb: Only Nixon could go to China. --Spock, Star Trek VI When I took over EI2 two years ago, one of the first things I did was merge ATDC and VentureLab. It was the right thing to do at the time... but times have changed. Nina Sawczuk has been director of Startup Services for almost a year and has ambitious growth … [Read more...]
Results of the Revenue Diversification 2011 Process
June 1, 2011 by
Thanks again to everyone who got involved in the 2011 Revenue Diversification process. Dozens of people participated, but I'd particularly like to thank Joy Hymel and Lynne Henkiel for co-chairing this year's effort. As reported earlier, the EI2-wide team narrowed down more than 140 suggestions to 11 finalists, then 11 individual project teams … [Read more...]
Not Your Father’s Oldsmobile
May 1, 2011 by
Chris Downing arranged for me to speak at Georgia Manufacturing Appreciation Week last week. So, to prepare, I dug into the state of the manufacturing industry, locally and worldwide. I reminded myself of a few things, and learned a few others. Manufacturing has gone through some wrenching changes in the last couple of decades -- mostly because … [Read more...]
Startup America Comes to Atlanta
April 25, 2011 by
Obama Administration to hold Startup America: Reducing Barriers Roundtable in Atlanta … [Read more...]
EI2 to Return to Previous Name, Begin Implementing Color-Coded Departments
April 1, 2011 by
Effective immediately, the Enterprise Innovation Institute will return to our previous moniker – Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute (GT-EDI) – in an effort to better reflect the activities of the organization and effectively serve our client base. Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute is a name that more accurately reflects the … [Read more...]
Introducing IPaT
March 1, 2011 by
We trained hard... but it seemed everytime we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to treat any new situation by reorganization and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiences, and demoralization. --Petronius … [Read more...]
