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By Scott Meacham It’s official. The country is in a recession. Of course, we didn’t need the recent announcement by the National Bureau of Economic Research to tell us that. Given its unusualness, our hope is that we have nearly bottomed out from the pandemic free-fall and that economic recovery will come quickly. However, weRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Innovation drives everything. Without innovation, we wouldn’t have entrepreneurs, startup companies, or job and wealth creation. And we wouldn’t have shopping carts. Sylvan Goldman, the Oklahoma grocer who in 1937 invented the shopping cart, had a business problem that was keeping him from increasing whatRead more

Sometime back, a doctor who was also an inventor, mentioned that the next time I visited a hospital I should be on the lookout for rubber bands and paper clips. Not in the administrative areas, he said, but attached in some way to pieces of high tech equipment.

As a lifelong Oklahoman, I have lived through a number of booms and busts driven by the price of oil and gas. In Oklahoma, when we hear that oil is at a 12-year low, that is not a good sign. Since our state is so dependent on the energy sector, low energy prices are particularly bad news for our economy and for our state budget. Not surprisingly, in times like this people start pointing fingers at state economic policy.

Innovation has a long history in Oklahoma business By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2015, The Oklahoma Publishing Company As a kid growing up in rural Oklahoma, one of the highlights of my young life was getting to go to “the City” and see my grandparents. Of course my brother and I enjoyed being spoiled byRead more

Finding a new name for innovation in Oklahoma City By i2E Vice Chair Stephen Prescott Copyright © 2015 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. What’s in a name? That’s what I thought as I sat with more than 200 others at the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce retreat earlier this month. We had gathered for a daylongRead more

Vision proposal aims at Tulsa being the next Silicon Valley By Jarrel Wade Copyright © 2015 BH Media Group Holdings, Inc. The next industrial revolution is called the “maker movement,” and Scott Phillips, founder of Civic Ninjas, wants Tulsa to be ahead of everyone. On Tuesday, Phillips plans to pitch his proposal for Vision 2025 renewalRead more

For Oklahoma to fully compete in this century’s innovation economy, we all need to get on the same page and commit to a cohesive strategy to grow advanced industries in our state.

The “2014 State New Economy Index,” a study based on 25 key indicators produced by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, ranks Oklahoma 48th of the 50 states in innovation.

We have to feed the innovation machine with science and invention on the front end to produce a constant stream of job-creating innovative businesses.

I’ve never seen any stats on this, but I imagine that football players might make pretty good entrepreneurs, because there are so many similarities between the game and entrepreneurship.