Spreading the Opportunity
March 5, 2020
Recent years have seen a boom in a few economically privileged metropolitan areas and a bust in others passed over by development, especially in high tech, says a Washington Post columnist, citing the need to steer investment and innovation to places off the conventional radar screen. Issues has explored ways to make this happen, including expanding the capacity of universities (here and here) in overlooked regions to deliver higher education grounded in applied learning and research, and using the power of venture capital (here) to promote technology-based start-ups in underserved areas.