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The Federal Role in Encouraging Innovation: The "I’s" Have It
Written on February 22, 2011 at 7:43 pm, by Andrew Reamer
Last week, in a well-reported address, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made an impassioned argument that stimulating innovation is an essential federal economic role around which Democrats and Republicans can and should find common ground. Bloomberg called innovation “capitalism’s most powerful force” and said “Unless we innovate, we cannot hope to succeed. And if we do innovate, there is no way we can fail.”