Innovation, the application of knowledge to create new products and services, is the key to competitiveness. We see this every day in startups and technologies that are birthed in the Bay Area. Political gridlock and creeping bureaucracy, however, could throttle the golden goose. The culprits -- the federal budget, immigration bottlenecks and regulation -- are clear but hard to kill.
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