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> On Jan 13, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > FYI > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Richard Lowenberg" <[email protected]> > Date: Jan 12, 2017 9:52 PM > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Lujan: Libraries + Innovation > To: "1st-mile Nm" <[email protected]> > Cc: > > Lujan: Libraries + Innovation > > http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2017/01/lawmaker-public-libraries-can-boost-american-innovation/134518/ > > President-elect Donald Trump's technology agenda is largely opaque, but at > least one member of Congress has a message for his administration: ideas for > cutting-edge technology often comes from the grassroots. > > “Innovation may have a national or even global impact but like politics, the > process of innovation is inherently local,” Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., said > during an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation event on Capitol > Hill on Wednesday. The government needs to think of creative ways to “provide > resources to the innovators ... across the country," he added. > > Lujan advocated for establishing maker-spaces in public libraries, > potentially outfitting them with small-scale manufacturing equipment such as > 3-D printers, that are accessible to businesses, researchers and the nearby > community. Because public libraries already exist across America, "including > the rural parts, where we still don’t have bandwidth capacity," they could > become hubs for technological development outside Silicon Valley, he said. > > Lujan, who co-founded the House Technology Transfer Caucus, singled out this > and a few other innovation-themed recommendations for Trump's administration > mentioned in a report from the ITIF and the Brookings Institution. > > He also advocated for creating an Energy Department-based nonprofit that > could dole out funds to transition technology out of federal research labs > and into the marketplace. Lujan said he's working on legislation that would > encourage Energy to promote partnerships with local economic development > groups including maker-spaces. > > Other specific recommendations mentioned in the report include encouraging > student entrepreneurship and increasing research and development tax credit > generosity. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > [email protected] www.1st-mile.org > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > [email protected] > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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