Accelerating High-Tech Health Care
By Mark Kleszczewski
The American health care and medical devices industries, global leaders for decades, now face serious challenges from several directions. Major gaps in funding for early-stage companies, stringent new labeling regulations and a new 2.3 percent federal excise tax on every medical device sold are…
Cleantech Opportunities on the Rise
By Mark Kleszczewski
Even as American oil and gas production continues to thrive, the U.S. renewable energy industry is experiencing a surge of its own, led by domestic solar power’s record-breaking gains in 2013.
As consumers demand greener products and services, and companies seek to become more…
Building the Future of Manufacturing
By Mark Kleszczewski
Game changing technology and new career paths require community support and investment.
The U.S. economy has been shifting from manufacturing to services for decades, but making tangible products still underpins the country’s ability to innovate, compete and create high-value jobs. American manufacturing has even…
Makers Create the Future
By Mark Kleszczewski
Are we on the verge of the next industrial revolution?
In an echo of the personal computer revolution, advancing technologies are fueling a growing “maker movement” of hobbyists, artists, designers, “do-it-yourselfers,” engineers and scientists who are sharing ideas and beginning to reshape the nature of…
Bioscience’s Bright Spots
By Mark Kleszczewski
Collaboration within clusters trumps competition.
Despite high failure rates, difficulties in obtaining early-stage funding and rapidly-changing market dynamics, the U.S. bioscience and biopharma industries not only weathered the recession, but actually added jobs while other knowledge-based industries lost traction.
While well-established industry…
