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DOE’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative Leverages Regions

May 6, 2013, Scott Andes and Mark Muro

How Not to Die: Revolutionizing End-of-Life Health Care

April 30, 2013, Jonathan Rauch

Tech Transfer Policy: Bayh-Dole has Distributional Consequences

April 26, 2013, Walter D. Valdivia

Building on Recent Advances in Evidence-Based Policymaking

April 17, 2013, Jeffrey B. Liebman

Revving Up Manufacturing, Region by Region

April 11, 2013, Mark Muro and Jessica Lee

Social Media, Religion in the New Arab World

March 24, 2013, H.A. Hellyer

Education Technology: The Next Generation

March 20, 2013

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Going Global: Boosting Metro Atlanta's Economic Future

March 20, 2013

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The United States Transitions to a 'First-Inventor-To-File' Patent System

March 11, 2013, John Villasenor

The Predator Comes Home: A Primer on Domestic Drones, their Huge Business Opportunities, and their Deep Political, Moral, and Legal Challenges

March 8, 2013, Peter W. Singer

Invention and the Mobile Economy

March 5, 2013, Darrell M. West

Invention and the Mobile Economy

March 5, 2013

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Eye-Tracking Smartphones Have Arrived. What About the Privacy Implications?

March 5, 2013, John Villasenor

The airspace [for the FAA's six drone test sites], under the current schedule, opens up [in] 2015...and so we will see one of the most fundamental shifts in who and how you can use the airspace above us.

February 26, 2013, Peter W. Singer, National Public Radio

The American Airlines-US Airways Merger in an Evolving Airline Industry

February 26, 2013, Clifford Winston

If you ask a particular citizen or business located in Boston or a suburb of Boston why they stay, they’ll tell you they want clean streets, they want safe streets, they want good schools, they want fluid traffic and transport options, they want a government that’s actually transparent.

February 20, 2013, Bruce Katz, Business Insider

A Cheerful Welcome to the Robots, Our Future Work Overlords

February 18, 2013, Scott Winship

Innovation tends to happen best when you’re drawing on diverse and loosely connected networks. Metropolitan areas bring together people whose ideas intermix, recombine and explode in new directions.

February 18, 2013, Jennifer Bradley,

The U.S. Must ‘Race to the Shop’ to Spur Economic Growth

February 12, 2013, Bruce Katz and Peter Hamp

The Patent System: Mend, Don’t End

February 11, 2013, Jonathan Rothwell

Launch! Taking Colorado’s Space Economy to the Next Level

February 5, 2013, Mark Muro, Devashree Saha, Kenan Fikri, Jessica Lee and Nick Marchio

[Colorado] is entering a period where it has an opportunity to be the Silicon Valley of space.

February 5, 2013, Mark Muro, The Associated Press

Advancing Advanced Industries

February 5, 2013, Mark Muro

A strong innovation system is a critical contributor to prosperity.

February 1, 2013, Mark Muro, USA Today

Patenting and Innovation in Metropolitan America

February 1, 2013