The Third Wave of digital technology meets the Rustbelt (Ian Hathaway, Brookings)

Much excitement has been building over what feels like the beginning of an era of immense technological advance, the central role that entrepreneurs will play in its development, and the potential for a wide range of regions to reap the rewards. But progress won’t come easy. Significant challenges are likely to follow as digital technologies expand into relatively untapped areas of the economy

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/05/26-third-wave-brainbelts-hathaway

Accelerating growth: Startup accelerator programs in the United States (Ian Hathaway, Brookings)

A convergence of factors in information technology and capital markets have helped propel a boom in venture capital-backed startups in recent years. While well-established regions such as San Francisco-Silicon Valley, Boston-Cambridge, and New York account for the lion’s share of startup activity and funding, significant evidence suggests that a non-trivial amount of early stage capital is dispersing geographically throughout the United States.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/02/17-startup-accelerator-programs-hathaway

A cure for health care inefficiency? The value and geography of venture capital in the digital health sector (Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2015/09/10-venture-capital-digital-health-hathaway-rothwell