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Brookings Advanced Industries Project

Past Event | Advanced Industries Series

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

February 5, 2013

On Tuesday, February 5, the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings presented a dynamic public forum focused on the significance and future of the Colorado space economy as an exemplary advanced industry. Hosted in collaboration with the Colorado Space Coalition and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, the event explored the best ways to advance the competitiveness of the Colorado space cluster at a time of uncertainty and disruptive change. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper concluded the program with keynote remarks.

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    [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

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    In a way, Colorado was by virtue of its older economy a more equal place than the rest of the United States. But it's just picked up in droves these elements of the national economy and it's now more like a caricature of the United States in terms of the imbalance between the high end and the low end—where the high end is disproportionately employing highly educated whites and the low is probably employing disproportionately, less educated Latinos and African Americans.

    January 21, 2013, Alan Berube, I-News Network

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    [T]he NRA and the rest of the gun lobby have such a firm hold on our political system that no one can bring up the notion, which we bring up with every other kind of tragedy, that maybe we can do better. Maybe there are laws that we can pass to prevent something like this. No one says that better laws would prevent all tragedies, but if that were the standard, then we wouldn’t pass any laws at all.

    July 20, 2012, E.J. Dionne, Jr., National Public Radio

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