tbed

Introduction

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). The site contains informational pages about me as shown above, links to certain of my projects as shown in the side column, and also occasional blog-like posts in inverse chronological order below. [...]

Revisiting the NSF I/U CRC program: some recent insights

David Hochman — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:42:08 +0000

As promised in an earlier post, I now have the capability to add a standardized metropolitan-region field to any entry in my tbed database. Consequently, I’ve spent a few hours a week for the last several months revisiting my roughly 1,700 entries, adding, dropping, and revising as necessary to account for the ebb and flow [...]

New metropolitan geography database available

David Hochman — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:56:47 +0000

With all the recent interest in metropolitan regions as a unit of economic competitiveness (most prominently in the White House’s Regional Clusters of Innovation Initiative, but also its intellectual antecedents at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and the Science Progress project of the Center for American Progress), some readers might find interesting a database [...]

My response to the White House RFI on commercialization of university technologies

David Hochman — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:55:22 +0000

Recently, probably partly in response to the flap over Bayh-Dole launched by the Kauffman Foundation, the White House issued an RFI (Request for Information) on the commercialization of university-based research. Many institutional offices around the nation have put effort into their replies, and since they will take care to promote their own efforts and programs, [...]

Book review: Emerald Cities

David Hochman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:19:38 +0000

If you’ve ever wondered why some city governments elaborate their own greenhouse-gas-reduction strategies – when it might seem odd to spend scarce resources fighting a global problem in exchange for such minor potential improvements in local environmental quality – then you may find much useful insight from Joan Fitzgerald’s Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic [...]