{"57302":{"#nid":"57302","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof Breznitz Testifies on Innovation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDan Breznitz, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, testified before the House Science and Technology Committee\u0027s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation at a March 24 hearing on the federal government\u0027s role in supporting innovation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA theme of the hearing was the need for a comprehensive federal strategy to create an environment that is conducive to innovation in the United States. According to the witnesses, a comprehensive innovation strategy would include components such as a tax policy amenable to attracting capital, a more efficient process to transition research to commercializatiom and immigration policies that attract the best and the brightest and keep them in the United States.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBreznitz discussed three roles that the government has to play in innovation policy: public financing of private innovation; public production of innovation (i.e. financing of industrial research at nonprofit institutions); and facilitation of professional, interinstitutional networks. He also suggested that federal-state partnerships could stimulate states to compete in the development of different, experimental and creative policies for innovation and encourage regional collaboration.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA Web cast of the hearing and complete witness testimony is available at this \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/science.house.gov\/publications\/hearings_markups_details.aspx?NewsID=2775\u0022\u003Elink\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dan Breznitz, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, testified before the House Science and Technology Committee\u0027s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation at a March 24 hearing on the federal government\u0027s role in supporting innovation.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Hearing was held on March 24th"}],"uid":"27184","created_gmt":"2010-03-30 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:18","author":"Jene Gladstone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57303":{"id":"57303","type":"image","title":"Professor Dan Breznitz","body":null,"created":"1449175664","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:44","changed":"1475894503","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:43","alt":"Professor Dan Breznitz","file":{"fid":"190574","name":"tko82466.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tko82466.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tko82466.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":69263,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tko82466.jpg?itok=WtzD7kN2"}}},"media_ids":["57303"],"groups":[{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1988","name":"Breznitz"},{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAngela Levin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECISTP\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=al101\u0022\u003EContact Angela Levin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3199\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Angela.Levin@inta.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}