To break the cycle of lagging behind the rest of the country in economic development, Ohio needs to do more with homegrown innovations. That’s the recommendation a major new study.
The research, funded by the nonprofit Ohio Chamber of Commerce Research Foundation, says the state has as much innovation as other states. But Foundation board member Elliot Reed said unlike most of them, Ohio hasn’t had a tradition of pushing out knowledge of the breakthroughs to different sectors of business.
“They really miss the convergence that happens in a lot of these areas. And we’re seeing more and more as we become more data focused that these particular clusters of innovation are really converging at this point in time,” Reed said.
The study cites Youngstown’s America Makes Additive Manufacturing Institute as an example of the kind of integrated innovation the rest of the state should be looking at.
