I don’t usually venture into the realm of petroleum, but I’ve been to two events recently, one private and one public, that suggest that the entire world order is changing because of the collapse of oil prices. It could be that it is a confluence of factors and that there is no specific collaboration between […]…
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Universities Try to Create More “Spin Outs”
The Wall Street Journal has been doing an excellent job writing about how universities are approaching the subject of technology transfer, a favorite subject of mine. Here is their latest effort, below. My bottom line response is that universities are not organized to create businesses and have the wrong skills sets and the wrong set […]…
This important, but disappointing, story from the Wall Street Journal
Business U.S. Manufacturing Rebound Lags Behind Work Sent Abroad America Is Getting More Competitive, but Reshoring ‘Not What It’s Cracked Up to Be,’ Study Finds ENLARGE Stanley Black & Decker opened a plant in Charlotte, N.C., a year ago to assemble some power drills and other tools previously made only overseas. But that factory relies […]…
The 2015 Overseas Press Club Foundation winners
One of my passions is the Overseas Press Club Foundation and we have just selected 15 college students to come to New York and receive scholarships and fellowships in support of their dream of becoming foreign correspondents. That will happen on February 20 at the Yale Club in mid-town Manhattan. Here are the winners: Congratulations […]…
More Great Thinking from Brookings
What States Need to Do to Grow Their Advanced Industries by Bruce Katz,Mark Muro | December 12, 2014 Voters said unequivocally in this year’s midterm elections that economic growth and quality jobs are their top concerns. The divided federal government that resulted from those elections seems likely to take incremental but not transformative […]…
