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Published online 30 September 2009 | Nature 461, 585 (2009) | doi:10.1038/461585a
Column: Party of One
Innovation strategy
The Obama administration has good proposals but needs a more systematic approach, David Goldston argues.
US President Barack Obama travelled to a struggling city in upper New York state last week to unveil a 22-page "Strategy for American Innovation". The Obama administration is genuinely interested in developing policies to foster innovation, but a close reading of the strategy indicates that it is just beginning to figure out how to do that.
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