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Consulting in technology-based economic development

David Hochman — Thu, 25 May 2006 23:04:48 +0000

This website is owned and managed by David Hochman as an independent consultant on technology-based (sometimes called technology-led or innovation-led) economic development (tbed). You can read about my consulting services here. To contact me, use the tab above. My blog starts below. If you are interested in learning about tbed, consider the short reading list at my on-line [...]

CUF’s ‘New Tech City’ report

David Hochman — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:31:08 +0000

An interesting report on New York City’s powerful wave of digital-technology startups has issued from the Center for an Urban Future (a non-partisan think tank where I’m a long-time advisor and occasional author, though not involved in this report). The report “New Tech City” does a solid job capturing the way Internet-enabled startups (supercharged these [...]

Weaknesses in Apple’s impact report echo those in universities’ studies

David Hochman — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:23:40 +0000

Though I maintain a library of university economic-impact studies, I’m on the record as being quite skeptical of them, especially those that are purely quantitative. I was unsurprised when The New York Times noted the obvious weaknesses in the economic-impact study recently commissioned by Apple, which tried to counter the reality that nearly all Apple’s [...]

Common sense on common math standards for STEM education

David Hochman — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:36:47 +0000

(With this post I inaugurate a series of occasional items tagged “quick takes,” in which I’ll link to and offer short reaction to events or documents that touch on my areas of interest, though possibly not directly enough to permit full commentary at an acceptable level of quality.) There’s more common sense about K12 math [...]

The latest UMDNJ/Rutgers reconfiguration plan: implications for research and economic development

David Hochman — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:00:23 +0000

First the [former Merck CEO Roy] Vagelos Commission; then the [former Governor Tom] Kean Commission; just this past week, the final report of the UMDNJ Advisory Committee. Here’s a recap of what’s happening with the reorganization of public medical education in New Jersey, and my own evaluation of the outcome, emphasizing the impacts on research [...]