An Emerging Tech Center: Oklahoma City For Entrepreneurs, Oklahoma City is, well, OK By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2016 | Innovation America Actually, it’s way better than OK, having developed into an impressive technology center from what was once not much. Oklahoma City was cloaked in a depressing vibe in the early 1990s. Downtown retailRead more
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Innovations: Ardmore firm puts new light on sensor manufacturing process By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Company ARDMORE — One morning about five years ago I walked onto the laboratory floor at Ardmore’s Amethyst Research Inc. and stopped in my tracks. Directly in front of me was a giant ion beam accelerator. IRead more
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.
