Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you look at America, one of the great strengths of America is its university towns and the way a lot of their businesses and a lot of their innovation and enormous economic growth have come from reducing that gap, getting those universities directly involved in start-up businesses, green field businesses, new development businesses.
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.
Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.
College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.