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TBED Community of Practice webinar: Strategies to drive regional technology-based entrepreneurship and economic development

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Wednesday, March 19, 3:00 pm EDT | Zoom
No charge; registration required.

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An Earth Day item on TBED financial investment strategies

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Which should be more valuable for an economic development minded investment program?

Which should be more valuable for an economic development minded investment program?

  • Company A, which yields a 2x return on investment and has a technology that reduces carbon emissions and energy use,
  • Company B, which returns 12x to investors through an impressive IPO but contributes more to climate change, or
  • Company C, which returns 3x and the climate impacts of its technology and production process aren’t as easily measured so remain unknown.
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Webinar: Communicating Tech-based Economic Development

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Communicating Tech-based Economic Development

Oct. 31 @ 3 p.m. ET | Free

How do you explain your work to others? Explore this important and challenging topic with your peers during a TBED Community of Practice webinar. SSTI will share findings about public perception and interpretation of common TBED activities, such as that people think tech transfer means moving files to a new device, and facilitate a discussion with experienced state leaders and the audience about effective strategies to build public awareness and stakeholder support. You’ll log off with new ideas for communicating your work to partners, funders, legislators, and even your family.

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Building blocks of regional innovation economies explored; SSTI gives testimony in support of national effort

Thursday, June 10, 2021

Outlining the need for a new national effort to build regional innovation economies, a panel of experts gave testimony to the Research and Technology subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, chaired by Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI). The panel focused on how regions have developed their innovation economies and how those experiences could be replicated across the country with federal support.

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Innovation and new opportunity front and center in the American Jobs Plan

Thursday, April 1, 2021

As noted in our separate overview, the 25-page American Jobs Plan provides goals, highlights and proposals, but also raises questions about how proposals would be implemented and even exactly how much money would be spent.

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Differences in industry concentrations of VDO and VC investments

Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Data reveal that policymakers should not equate strong Venture Development Organizations (VDOs) with private venture capital companies; the purpose of creating public policy to increase the availability of innovation-centered risk capital can be lost if one presumes VCs and VDOs are the same. While there are many similarities between individual VDOs and VC funds, important differences in industry concentration emerge when the two groups are compared in aggregate, which may result in different long-term economic impacts.  Effective VDOs are important drivers of regional innovation and of pushing emerging tech businesses forward. VC, on the other hand, can play an extractive role, particularly in markets with scarce equity finance options.
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What could a “new golden age” of science mean for research and commercialization?

Wednesday, August 26, 2026
SSTI’s recent TBED Community of Practice webinar took up a practical question raised by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy report, Science: A New Golden Age: if federal science policy shifts, what changes will universities, commercialization, and regional innovation organizations need to make? The presentation outlined a research system that could look considerably different from the one that has developed since Vannevar Bush’s Science, the Endless Frontier.
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New federal rules, both proposed and finalized, will impact small businesses

Thursday, August 27, 2026
A recent flurry of new rules, both proposed and finalized, may interest small business owners or those who advise them. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has proposed two new rules. The first, Revised Size Standards Methodology, will update SBA’s methodology for determining which businesses qualify as “small.” The second, on Small Business Size Standards, would consolidate the number of industry-specific size standards and raise size standard thresholds. 
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