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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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Universities as architects of regional innovation ecosystems

Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Ask most university leaders how their institution contributes to the regional economy and the answer is likely to include research expenditures, patents, startups, and jobs. Those measures remain important, but they overlook one of the university's most valuable contributions. In today’s economy, where innovation, talent, and technology shape how regions grow, universities are helping communities adapt, connect, and compete.
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TBED programs succeed by engaging with local communities

Wednesday, July 8, 2026
When a new TBED project comes to town, the TBED practitioners inside know the long-term benefits of technology-based economic development: they can see and understand their progress in building a strong economic foundation for their host region. But for community-based and workforce development organizations and K-12 education systems in the surrounding area, the TBED project might appear to be an opaque operation that operates independently of its neighbors.
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What to expect when you’re expecting (investment returns)

Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Following SSTI’s recent look at the timing and type of exits, we continue our look at investment activity to characterize returns on investments so that TBED investors can more accurately project and adjust program parameters to support long-term sustainability. Accurate data on venture capital investment returns and fund performance on private investment vehicles is not readily or consistently available. Anecdotal stories  and the occasional press release on a major transaction exist, but VC exits are often done quietly. As such, parties interested in understanding performance outcomes must rely on focused reports and other aggregate data. 
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