Who met in the middle for this episode?  Maryann Feldman, Ross DeVol and Daniel Goetzel share the stage in this podcast talking about a report Heartland Forward released at the 2022 Heartland Summit called Research to Renewal as well as discussing the National Science Foundation's announcement of a new program called Regional Innovation Engines. 

Situational Awareness:  Creating new knowledge to infuse into private industry to yield an economic return on an investment is important to regions and our nation overall. Facing global competition for talent and leadership, the U.S. must expand its innovation capacity by leveraging resources, creativity and ingenuity that exists across all geographic regions of the country. 

What's the connection? The Research to Renewal report and the announcement of the bold, new U.S. NSF initiative both acknowledge that robust partnerships rooted in scientific and technological innovation to positively impact the economy within a geographic region are critical, especially to address societal challenges and keep us competitive nationally.

Drilling down to top performers: If you are curious and want to see an index of the top performing universities at tech transfer and commercialization by research expenditure, region, private v. public institution and medical school presence, a map can be found here.