Politico December 4, 2024
With help from Derek Robertson
With the coming transfer of power in Washington, the Biden administration finds many of its big policy ideas in danger of being unwound or abandoned. Among them is a broad plan to launch clusters of innovation and startup activity around the country.
Two of the programs at the heart of that vision are the Tech Hubs, managed by the Commerce Department, and its earlier stage, research-driven counterpart at the National Science Foundation, the Regional Innovation Engines.
The idea is to help bring the American innovation economy to places beyond Silicon Valley — creating a more dispersed tech ecosystem that spreads the wealth, and even perhaps boosts the odds of discovering the next transformative industry. Both...
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