Universities and legacy industries are giving rise to the Midwest’s AI startups

ANALYSIS: Despite the promise artificial intelligence holds to transform many facets of American life, the majority of artificial intelligence companies are still concentrated in traditional tech hubs. According to a Glassdoor analysis from November, 30 percent of open jobs at the time that included the words “artificial intelligence, “…Read More

The Decline of the Midwest’s Public Universities Threatens to Wreck Its Most Vibrant Economies

Four floors above a dull cinder-block lobby in a nondescript building at the Ohio State University, the doors of a slow-moving elevator open on an unexpectedly futuristic 10,000-square-foot laboratory bristling with technology. It’s a reveal reminiscent of a James Bond movie. In fact, the researchers who run this year-old, $ 750,000 lab at OSU’s Spine […]

The Decline of the Midwest’s Public Universities Threatens to Wreck Its Most Vibrant Economies

Four floors above a dull cinder-block lobby in a nondescript building at the Ohio State University, the doors of a slow-moving elevator open on an unexpectedly futuristic 10,000-square-foot laboratory bristling with technology. It’s a reveal reminiscent of a James Bond movie. In fact, the researchers who run this year-old, $ 750,000 lab at OSU’s Spine […]

The Midwest’s healthy fear of failure beats Silicon Valley’s fail-fast mantra

GUEST: A couple of years ago, I met Dan. He had just left one of Silicon Valley’s hottest tech companies (fully vested, of course), where he’d run their growth team. He planned to take some time off, get married, and work on his startup. When I asked what problem he wanted to solve, he said […]