Shalin Jyotishi, Founder and Managing Director of New America's Future of Work and Innovation Economy Initiative: New Opportunities in the Innovation Economy

Episode 96 December 04, 2024 00:30:53
Shalin Jyotishi, Founder and Managing Director of New America's Future of Work and Innovation Economy Initiative: New Opportunities in the Innovation Economy
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Shalin Jyotishi, Founder and Managing Director of New America's Future of Work and Innovation Economy Initiative: New Opportunities in the Innovation Economy

Dec 04 2024 | 00:30:53

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Show Notes

One of one of the most significant attempts to spur economic growth and U.S. global competitiveness since the space race was made a few years ago through the CHIPS and Science Act, but many people in workforce development, economic development and higher education aren’t aware of the new opportunities flowing from it. Our guest on this episode of WorkforceRx, Shalin Jyotishi, launched the Future of Work and Innovation Economy Initiative at New America to help create that awareness and help localities prepare to take advantage of those opportunities. “We’re focused on building the capacity of higher education and workforce institutions to be better positioned to respond to economic development and industrial policy investments coming into their communities, especially around the innovation economy and emerging technologies,” he tells Futuro Health CEO Van Ton-Quinlivan. One key example is that the CHIPS Act expanded the mission of the National Science Foundation to include supporting the translation of research into technologies, companies and, ultimately, jobs with an eye on regional equity. “The objective here is to make sure that the entire country is able to come along for the ride and not just the traditional tech hotspots like Silicon Valley and Boston,” Jyotishi explains. Tune in to find out which states are early winners in this expansion of opportunity and what else has been set in motion in the attempt to align federal investment with tech innovation to renew the American middle class.

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