For years, the state has been hatching campaigns to build a knowledge economy based on information technology, biotechnology and life sciences. The efforts, however, have been small and scattershot. Tiny awards for biological research. A few desks for entrepreneurs. Modest tax breaks for research and development spending. A Web site for networking.

None of those initiatives can succeed if the state continues to lose its most precious resource, the creative and brainy college graduates who will lead the country’s economic transformation.

Full Story: Innovators’ keys to a new R.I. economy Source: Providence Journal, March 22nd, 2009 Author: P. Marcelo and B. Gedan Added on March 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 am, by Matt Mikula