The Technology Triangle
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AEL DUKAKIS
development of that triangle is in the best sense of the word critical to our economic future. For one thing, you're in a state which has done much better in economic terms over the past decade than most of our sister industrial states precisely because we have a reputation for academic and technological strength, and there's no mystery to why we have what we have on [Highway] 128, and why this state is a center of the high technology, and now increasingly the biotechnology industry.
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It's because we have this reputation and this great strength in an academic and university research sense, and it has made Massachusetts one of the great technological centers. We also have more traditional industries, as well, which are very important to us, and the application of new technology to those older and more mature industries is another essential part of this state's economic strategy. And as the debate goes on nationally over whether or not we ought to have an industrial policy (whatever that means), and whether or not we ought to look to Japan as a model for that kind of thing, I think I can say to you that at the state level in almost every state I know of, governors of both parties, regardless of their ideological leaning, are in the process of developing economic strategies for their states which are designed to take advantage of their respective strengths. And for Massachusetts, the relationship between state house, business community, and university center is absolutely fundamental—absolutely fundamental for our economic future, so much so that as a part of the economic strategy that we are developing for this state, we have identified academic and university centers of excellence; we expect to be investing in them and, in turn, developing industrial strength in and around those academic centers of excellence in ways which are critically important to our economic future and the creation of a healthy economic future and good jobs for our people.
very close cooperation with the business community in central Massachusetts. Out at Amherst, at the University itself, we have a polymer science department, a center of excellence which is one of the best in the world. I expect in a matter of a few days to be announcing a major state investment in that center. Why? Because we expect to be on the cutting edge of what is obviously an important emerging area of technology. And we anticipate that out of that, and out of the state investment, we can develop another economic, as well as research and academic, center of excellence. And we will be systematically looking at similar opportunities all over the Commonwealth and, where appropriate, we will be
Fostering University /Industry Collaboration Let me give you just a couple of examp
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