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  Show America What is Already Working

  Let's let entrepreneurs piggyback on one of the largest sources of local/regional awareness that's already in place across our country... the plain-old green exit signs at every highway exit. Here in North Carolina you drive past about 150 startups as you go from RDU International Airport to Chapel Hill, Raleigh or Durham (10 miles). Along your drive you are notified about every Shell Gas station and every Cracker Barrel ...more »

  Let's let entrepreneurs piggyback on one of the largest sources of local/regional awareness that's already in place across our country... the plain-old green exit signs at every highway exit. Here in North Carolina you drive past about 150 startups as you go from RDU International Airport to Chapel Hill, Raleigh or Durham (10 miles). Along your drive you are notified about every Shell Gas station and every Cracker Barrel restaurant but you see nothing about the area's booming high tech startups. My idea is simple, create a new standard highway Innovation Sign that features the logos of high tech startups within 5 miles of each highway exit. This will shine a light on our nation's best and brightest and is a simple and highly visible way to bring awareness to the work that is being done to create new jobs across our country.

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  Submitted by Aaron Houghton 2 years ago

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  Public Resources for New Business Development & Job Creation

  Consider re-organizing all federal and public assets dedicated to new business development and job creation into a single agency. Avoid redundancy between EDA and SBA. For example, EDA recently announced its new web site for business development and job creation. http://www.eda.gov/NewsEvents/PressReleases/20110511_Albuquerque_RIAN

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  Submitted by Gerard Peregrin 2 years ago

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  Job/Entrepreneurship CDC will create millions of new jobs

  Ideas to jump start jobs creation and innovation in American. I have participated and advised my local government officials on ideas for creating jobs and what I found astounded me. 1. Officials play it safe with federal dollars: Outcome > no innovation or job creation just same ole same ole. (Has to be some level of risk taken) 2. Once the federal dollars were available. Local gatekeepers rewarded there friends or shuffled ...more »

  Ideas to jump start jobs creation and innovation in American. I have participated and advised my local government officials on ideas for creating jobs and what I found astounded me.

  1. Officials play it safe with federal dollars: Outcome > no innovation or job creation just same ole same ole. (Has to be some level of risk taken)

  2. Once the federal dollars were available. Local gatekeepers rewarded there friends or shuffled the money into there ongoing pet projects: Impact no change.. (Invest in new leadership development and creative ideas)

  3. Community Colleges are poor incubators for entrepreneurship because teachers only teach and do not build businesses. (Local Job Development CDC's - not government, but operating more like Venture Capitalist- have to be created and tasked with certain level of authority to help identify and nurture entrepreneurship opportunities)

  4. Creation of creative financing available to qualifying (Idea's) that the newly created Job/Entrepreneurship Development CDC deem viable in there local regions. *CDC have ability to finance and create partnerships, connect business with customers and hire staff to get business operating at level of stability.

  5. Add to language of federal dollars acquired by state and local government for them to work interdependently with complimentary departments.

  6. Create online map identifying regional and local supportive industry suppliers, agencies, startups or lack of and help them build the ability to work effectively together.

  7. Create customized regional education program that shares localized opportunity data, resources and information.

  8. We have to see this first as industry creation and then process creation from a holistic perspective merging all of the resource to work collectively together. This is difficult because most think linear.

  I can go down a list... Please feel to contact me or connect with me Karl Brustmeyer.

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  Submitted by karl.brustmeyer 2 years ago

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  Let us vote (online) how to spend tax dollars and USPTO database

  Allow citizens to vote using the internet and thus make democracy a reality. Think of the 600 million Facebook users voting on issues in real-time. We could move forward instead of stagnating. We could also fire all of our 'representatives' on capital hill. At least use the power of instant communications/feedback to gauge what people want to do with tax dollars. How about letting us see exactly (itemized) how are tax ...more »

  Allow citizens to vote using the internet and thus make democracy a reality. Think of the 600 million Facebook users voting on issues in real-time. We could move forward instead of stagnating. We could also fire all of our 'representatives' on capital hill. At least use the power of instant communications/feedback to gauge what people want to do with tax dollars. How about letting us see exactly (itemized) how are tax dollars are being spent and let us choose from options/programs that we would like to vote up. Like Ideascale on a grand-scale. How about closing down the USPTO and letting people submit ideas/inventions into an encrypted database. Think of how many ideas are lost due to our failed patent/copyright protection/granting system. How about using the keywords associated with said inventions/ideas to refine a database of relevant content/info which will help said idea to emerge from the masses. Such as the inventions industry and potential for success can all be deduced by a computer program. For example, if I invent a new exercise ball and submit my provisional patent (with keywords), the program uses those keywords to determine the industry (if I haven't already selected this from a drop-down menu), then the industry statistics like market growth, size, etc. can help determine the viability/profitability of the invention. Also, you could retrieve associated inventions/prior-art so that a more efficient patent search can be done. There is much room for improvement and reduction of the bottlenecks to innovation and economic growth due to our ridiculous USPTO and lack of really usable tools and information for entrepreneurs without capital/resources. Does anyone with power actually read these ideas anyway? We could harness ideas and make them reality nearly instantly. World changing ideas and business models are waiting to be found! There are a lot of dudes in garages right now in the US who will never see the light of day unless we do something soon. Peace to Obama.

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  Submitted by gregorypeterfrancis 2 years ago

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  Better than "Patent Reform"

  Rather than completely rebuilding the Patent System... reinstate a version of The Disclosure Document Program with information to be kept Confidential by the USPTO but to be accessed as evidence of Date of Invention if needed. Keep electronic files Indefinately. I actually have a more thorough explanation but this is a simple, cost effective, way to address some of the issues brought up by Internation Mega-Corporations ...more »

  Rather than completely rebuilding the Patent System... reinstate a version of The Disclosure Document Program with information to be kept Confidential by the USPTO but to be accessed as evidence of Date of Invention if needed. Keep electronic files Indefinately.

  I actually have a more thorough explanation but this is a simple, cost effective, way to address some of the issues brought up by Internation Mega-Corporations that claiming they can't compete with Garage Inventor fairly.

  Submitting $15,000 patents, which may evolve and require additional submittals, just to get a Set Date is Inefficient, Ineffective, will cause additional backlog at the USPTO, and is Wasteful for Everyone!

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