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The White House Wants Advice On What’s Blocking American Innovation

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 10, 2011

[ Thanks to Jose_X
for this link. ]

“The White House website kicked off a new feature this
week, called Advise the Advisor, in which a senior staff member at
the White House will post a YouTube video on a particular subject,
asking the public to weigh in on that topic via a form. The very
first such topic is one near and dear to our hearts: American
Innovation. Here’s the video of David Plouffe asking how to
encourage innovation and get rid of roadblocks:

“The form only allows 2,500 characters, which really isn’t that
much. I ended up sending in two separate answers due to the space
constraint. The first answered one of the questions posed:

“What are the obstacles to innovation that you see in your
community?

“And here is the answer I provided:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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