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Accelerating Regional Job Creation and Innovation Report
In this April 4, 2012, file photo, Scott Richards of Saint Anselm College looks over possible jobs during a career fair for college students in Manchester, New Hampshire. (AP/Jim Cole)

Accelerating Regional Job Creation and Innovation

Jennifer Erickson and Sean Pool explain how the Economic Development Administration’s Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge can help spur job creation.

Jennifer Erickson, Sean Pool

Low-carbon Innovation Report
A wind turbine blade is unveiled during the opening of the Vestas blade factory in Windsor, Colorado. (AP/Jack Dempsey)

Low-carbon Innovation

Bracken Hendricks, Sean Pool, and Lisbeth Kaufman explain how low-carbon industrial strategies can ensure American sustained leadership in innovation.

Bracken Hendricks, Sean Pool, Lisbeth Kaufman

The Top 10 Things to Do to Compete with China Report
President Barack Obama meets with China's President Hu Jintao on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, in the Oval Office of the White House. (AP/Evan Vucci)

The Top 10 Things to Do to Compete with China

President Obama in his State of the Union address cited China’s rise in technology innovation and commercialization. Here are the 10 things the United States can do to stay innovative and competitive.

Sean Pool, David Murdter

Rising to the Challenge Report
China is actively and methodically building up the basic foundations for future economic growth while also ensuring a market for its current and future products and services at home and abroad. (AP/Color China Photo)

Rising to the Challenge

No longer the maker of just low-cost consumer goods, China's investments in technology innovation should serve as a warning to the United States.

Kate Gordon, Susan Lyon, Ed Paisley, 1 More Sean Pool

A California Campaign with Global Consequences Article
Gobernador de California Arnold Schwarzenegger, centro, se da la mano con el Alcalde de San Francisco Gavin Newsom después de firmar el proyecto de ley AB 32, la Ley de Soluciones para el Calentamiento Global en California del 2006. La AB 32 ahora está siendo atacada por la Proposición 23. (AP/Ben Margot)

A California Campaign with Global Consequences

Big Oil’s Proposition 23 threatens more than just California’s economy and environment, write Araceli Ruano and Sean Pool.

Araceli Ruano, Sean Pool

How to Power the Energy Innovation Lifecycle Report
An energy researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory works on the next generation of batteries. (Flickr/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

How to Power the Energy Innovation Lifecycle

Sean Pool analyzes the innovation lifecycle to provide insight into how we can get clean energy industries performing at their peak.

Sean Pool

The Copenhagen Accord at Three Months Interactive

The Copenhagen Accord at Three Months

Interactive map from Andrew Light and Sean Pool shows that 110 countries now support a new global effort to achieve climate safety.

Andrew Light, Sean Pool

The Proof Is in the Pudding Article
RGGI proves that a market-based price on power-sector emissions is both possible and effective in the United States. (AP/Charlie Riedel)

The Proof Is in the Pudding

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s seventh successful auction of carbon dioxide permits proves market-based pollution pricing works in the United States, says Sean Pool.

Sean Pool

Leading by Example on Clean Energy Article
The Denver Federal Center, pictured above, is already working to improve its energy efficiency by installing 35 acres of roof-mounted solar panels, enough to supply all of its electricity needs. (Flickr/Jeffrey Beall)

Leading by Example on Clean Energy

Sean Pool explains how the president’s emissions targets for the federal government will save taxpayers money and smooth the transition to a clean energy economy.

Sean Pool