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Democracy At Work

Feb 7th, 2011 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Policy Matters

President Obama has recently hit the road, talking up that nebulous and wonderful thing called innovation.

Of course, we’re not talking about just any innovation.

The President is certainly not touting the sort of garden variety innovation that lets a microbusiness owner figure out how to rearrange his business model so that he can make a profit doing something that scores of business gurus before him decided was unprofitable.

That stuff just doesn’t count.

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Small Firms Remain Important Innovators

Nov 17th, 2008 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Research

Now that the Bush Administration is a little over two months away from its swan song and objective science may once again become fashionable in the nation’s capital, a particularly timely report reminds us that, high on the list of nice-things-small-firms-do is to develop the technologies that often solve our problems, make us money and [...]

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