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. [...]

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 [...]

Seeking nominations for the Kennedy School’s Innovations in American Government Award

David Hochman — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:25:57 +0000

The Innovations in American Government Award administered by the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School is again looking for nominations for innovative government programs, including in the category of community and economic development. The deadline is March 1st. Winners of the Innovations competition are eligible for awards of up to $100,000 for replication and [...]

The responses are in to NYC’s ‘applied sciences campus’ RFEI

David Hochman — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:15:27 +0000

Three years ago, when the merger between NYU and Polytechnic University was just under way, I wrote a well received opinion piece arguing that aggressive development of New York City’s university-based engineering research programs might prove key to its ambitions to become a center of technology-based business development. I even argued that competition in this [...]

An interesting university capital campaign: Innovate Carolina

David Hochman — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:17:51 +0000

For some time, I’ve been arguing that there’s nothing in the typical university’s portfolio of commercialization activities that necessarily needs to be dependent on government grant support. In fact, universities are free to ask private donors to fund anything from the basic operations of the tech transfer office to the costs of running a proof-of-concept [...]