The crop of companies being born in New York and relocating here has revived the city’s entrepreneurial spirit with the potential to transform the economy. Projects such as Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to establish an engineering campus on Roosevelt Island could help populate the city with more tech-savvy people, but that is still years in the making.
In the meantime, programs such as SummerQAmp and hackNY are working fast to match students with startups at a time when low-cost labor is essential in the competitive job market. But there may be some reluctance among local startups to take on interns in a community that is still early in its evolution.
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