With the economy finally gaining steam after four years of a stop-and-start recovery, the Kauffman Foundation kicked off its “America's New Entrepreneurial Growth Initiative” at the fifth annual State of Entrepreneurship Address. The main output will be a New Entrepreneurial Growth Agenda by early 2016.

Just hours after President Obama proposed corporate tax reform in exchange for congressional support of a $302 billion transportation bill to pay for badly needed repairs to the nation’s decaying highways, roads, and bridges, power brokers from business, academia, and the federal government gathered at Harvard Business School on February 26, 2014 to begin a private, two-day summit called America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century.

Innovation and STEM-worker intensive advanced industries drive regional and national economic development in the United States. For that reason, states like Colorado and Tennessee are increasingly taking a lead in fostering these crown-jewel industries.

In Colorado, Governor John Hickenlooper is actively working to promote innovation in his state’s advanced industry sector, including the space and aerospace economy, which provides thousands of jobs in both the public and private sectors with spillover effects in advanced telecommunications, software, and advanced materials.

Add your voice to Washington's future by being a part of PLAN Washington, a new non-partisan, business-led initiative that is focused on making Washington a top 5 state in shared economic prosperity and quality of life. Announced by the Washington Business Alliance, this meeting will convene a community of business leaders working toward an inclusive and sustainable economic future for the state.

Boston's first annual Innovation and the City conference was held on January 9-10, 2014 at District Hall in the city's Innovation District. The colloquium convened scholars, policy makers, and practitioners to explore the opportunities and drawbacks associated with innovation-based urban economic development. Speakers included Bruce Katz (Brookings Institution), Paul Parkhill (Spaceworks NYC), and Dan Kinkead (Detroit Future City).

Please join our project partner, the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Regional Cluster Competitiveness Forum.