The Geography of Innovation

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Americans in every state must benefit from science and engineering and have access to STEM education and careers. Empowering workers, entrepreneurs, and businesses requires strategically building science and engineering capacity and infrastructure across the nation and actively seeding and nurturing innovation clusters. Speakers will highlight how different regions are encouraging diversity, economic opportunity, and innovation through STEM education and will discuss what’s missing in how the U.S. trains and prepares its future workforce. What role does education play in fomenting innovation? What do partnerships between government labs, academic institutions and private companies look like in different parts of the U.S.? What else can we do to encourage innovation in more states?