Indiana Water Governance Report
For more than 25 years, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) has brought together leaders from across the state to advance our mission of transforming the economy of Indiana in order to create a sustainable prosperity and quality of life for our citizens and future generations. To further our mission, CICP has largely focused on supporting the growth of Indiana’s advanced industries and the thousands of Hoosiers they employ. Indiana’s advanced industries—advanced manufacturing and logistics, agbiosciences, life sciences, and tech—have been the source of increased investment in recent years. As we look ahead to the future and a growing and changing economy, it is important that we take a refreshed look at what policies, tools and best practices might be necessary to ensure we have the resources we rely on to realize these opportunities. This is particularly so with [...]
Embracing a Culture of Creativity: Indiana’s Overlooked Economic Engine
Economic prosperity is driven by creativity in more ways than many people realize. The most successful communities are those that best leverage their creative talent and embrace art and culture to unlock their economic potential. Doing so requires an understanding of, and support for, the creative economy. The creative economy’s impact is extensive, with major implications for talent development, innovation and entrepreneurship, economic prosperity, and quality of life and place. The last century has seen extraordinary proliferation in brand new creative industries, from television and video games to animation, podcasting, music streaming, and augmented reality. Creative industries are often responsible for the creation of technical innovations. With technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, new creative industries are sure to emerge in the future as well. To outcompete its neighbors, Indiana must deepen its focus on the creative [...]
UNLOCKING IP: Leveraging Indiana’s R&D Assets to Boost Entrepreneurship
In recent years, Indiana’s leaders have placed a renewed emphasis on encouraging innovation and Hoosier entrepreneurship. To further support these new efforts, leaders at the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and AgriNovus Indiana—CICP’s branded initiative focused on growth of the state’s agbioscience industry—began investigating how to leverage Indiana’s existing R&D landscape and IP assets to further stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation across Indiana. Now is the time to scale up on all fronts: to invest more in innovation and entrepreneurship, to become more ambitious in our expectations for companies and support programs, and to do a better job of promoting Indiana as an innovation hot spot to Hoosiers and to others around the world. From universities to major corporate innovators to intermediaries and public sector investments, Indiana has many of the ingredients needed to leverage its R&D assets to boost [...]
