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From: Chris Gibbons <cgibb...@littletongov.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 20:06:53 -0600
Local: Fri, Jul 2 2010 10:06 pm
Subject: FW: Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs - BusinessWeek

Boy, is this interesting: Scaling as the key focus.  We have always maintained that 3-5% of the companies grow significantly and that very few individuals are Enterprise Builders.  The work in Florida is focused strictly on companies with an intent and capacity to grow but even with that laser focus, not all companies are going to grow significantly.

At the end of the article, Andy argues for protectionist tariffs to protect the manufacturing base.  Companies that benefit only investors and management leave a great group of unemployed people, a recipe for social unrest.  But even more important, the ecology of business innovation dies off hurting even the knowlege oriented businesses.

The great debate continues (but I sure like introducing scaling into the conversation).

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From: Recca Larson
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 9:06 AM
To: Chris Gibbons; Jo Anne Ricca; Eric C. Ervin
Subject: Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs - BusinessWeek

Hi, All,

Andy Grove, Intel CEO from 1987 to 2005 writes that the ability to scale is fundamental to jobs creation:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b4186048358596.htm

Recca

From the Econ-dev community on Google with insights from economic development thought leader, Chris Gibbons about the aspect of scale and it's relationship to global competitiveness.