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Technology and the Innovation Economy

The Brookings Institution

October 19, 2011

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Innovation and entrepreneurship are crucial for long-term economic development. Over the years, America's well-being has been furthered by science and technology. Fears set off by the Soviet Union's 1957 launch of its Sputnik satellite initiated a wave of U.S. investment in science, engineering, aerospace, and technology. Both public and private sector investment created jobs, built industries, fueled innovation, and propelled the U.S. to leadership in a number of different fields.

Technology enables innovation and creates economic prosperity. The range of new advances in education, health care, and communications pave the way for policy changes designed to encourage an innovation economy. By adopting policies such as a permanent research and development tax credit, more effective university knowledge commercialization, improving STEM worker training, reasonable immigration reform, and regional economic clusters, the U.S. can build an innovation economy and sustain long-term prosperity.

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