SandBox Comments: Colorado Statesman "Hickenlooper tosses COIN into economic development pool"

Hick's doing a very good job, even all the red out here thinks so.  So far, he's walking the talk.  His latest addition to his Bottom-Up Economic Development Plan is COIN (Colorado Innovation Network).  There's a little bit of dissent but not much.  Overall, the concept is sound, the idea is terrific and the execution clearly viable.

"Gov. John Hickenlooper announced on Monday the creation of a statewide initiative designed to bring together inventors and entrepreneurs with an aim of increasing the number of manufacturing jobs in Colorado while boosting the state’s reputation as a hotbed of innovation.

Pointing to areas around the country that combine cutting-edge research with market-shaking entrepreneurial zeal — from California’s Silicon Valley to comparable corridors in Massachusetts and North Carolina — Hickenlooper said it was time for Colorado to do what it can to join those ranks.

The state, he said, has “The Colorado advantage — we are almost perfectly poised to be a center where (there is) that kind of acceleration of taking a new idea and translating it into new jobs....”
(Ernest Luning)

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