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18 Technology and Economic Development for Whom?: The Prospects ...

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Content Inside: 18 Technology and Economic Development for Whom?: The Prospects for Dual Agenda State Programs Barry Bozeman The public policy holy grail is the win-win policy one resulting in many beneficiaries and no discernible losers. Few such policies exist of course. Most public policies set priorities among competing inter- ests. During the past decade one of the best places to look for the win- win policy has been states technology-based economic development programs. These programs are popular with taxpayers receive favor- able press and have broad-based and highly enthusiastic political cli- entele. For some reason the states seem largely immune to the charges of corporate welfare or industrial policy so often levied at federal technology-based economic development programs. In most states the programs are perceived as win-win and often are the apple of the governors eye. To be sure the commitment of resources to these pro- grams rarely matches the rhetoric. Only a few states actually have sig- nificant (from a budget standpoint) technology-based economic development programs but in almost all states regardless of the true level of resources committed the programs receive considerable attention. Barry Bozeman is a professor of public policy and director of the State Data and Research Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-director of the Center for Science Policy and Outcomes a Washington-based research organization sponsored jointly by Columbia University and Georgia Tech. This article is based on remarks delivered at the 24th Annual AAAS Collo- quium on Science and Technology Policy held April 1416 1999 in Wash- ington DC. 176 B ARRY B OZEMAN Well they should. My own perspective on state technology-based economic development (TED) programs is that of an evaluator. Having evaluated such programs in many states including among others Iowa New York New Mexico Georgia and California I am one of the peo- ple who has provided tangible data indica ...

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