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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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Place-based innovation comes of age: Federal regional innovation programs are reshaping America's technology economy

Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Strong regional ecosystems connect universities, entrepreneurs, investors, manufacturers, workforce organizations, and state and local governments. Rather than supporting just isolated institutions, federal agencies are now investing in collaborative regional networks capable of translating research into new companies, industries, and jobs. The intent is not for every region to become the next Silicon Valley, but to enable regions to compete by organizing around what they already do well.
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Takeaways from the ACA angel capital report

Wednesday, August 5, 2026
As SSTI noted in its recent look at quarterly investment activity, gaining insight into angel investment is difficult because of the challenges of separating angel activity from seed and other early VC transactions. Fortunately, the Angel Capital Association (ACA) recently published a report that provides a deep dive into 2025 angel investment activity and provides more clarity on this important financial partner for regional innovation. The big picture takeaway from the ACA report is that, like VCs, angel groups are making larger investments in fewer companies. 
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State grant programs support manufacturers and improve their competitiveness

Wednesday, August 5, 2026
As those involved with the longstanding, internationally recognized program know, an air of uncertainty has enveloped NIST’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) for the past two years. With the release of the new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for MEP Centers (see SSTI’s write‑up here), it appears that perhaps many of those troubles may be in the past. Even so, the uncertainty has prompted many manufacturers, small businesses, and MEP centers to explore alternate funding sources, partnerships, and forms of assistance beyond NIST.
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