By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman Innovate. Innovate. Innovate. That’s the common theme in today’s economy. Innovation stimulates entrepreneurship. Successful entrepreneurship creates net new jobs. Driving innovation through collaboration to create jobs is the entire reason for being of the public-private consortium of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and TechnologyRead more
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By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. As 2016 draws to a close, entrepreneurs and early stage investors in Oklahoma are ending the year with big smiles. In the past few weeks, the exits of Selexys and WeGoLook have been strong validations that in this state we do have the talent, capitalRead more
When the Oklahoma Legislature created the Oklahoma Center for Science and Technology (OCAST) nearly three decades ago, they perhaps underestimated how visionary they were. Legislators did realize that to be consistently strong, an economy must be diversified and that science and technology would be the drivers of jobs and wealth into the millennium.
