Future Watch
High-Tech Hype: L.A. Could Take Lessons in Blowing Its Own Horn


- Joel Kotkin
  Pepperdine Insitute for Public Policy

have an odd journalistic affliction: I like numbers. And when I read the most objective numbers about things that should matter to those who follow high tec-industry-things like total employment, growth rates, numbers of multimedia companies, number of scientists and engineers- it seems as though the greater Los Angles region should be famouse as one of the hottest spots for the nation's information-age industries.

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The End of The Net, Part II: Crossing the Spasm

- James Larkin Jonassen
  LAwNMoweR, Larkin Associates, Larkin Group


Okay so I was wrong- you can give it away and then start charging for it later. Who'da thunk?


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Special Section
Welfare Reform Panel

LARTA conviened a group of people from around the region to solicit their views on welfare reform, as well as potential solutions. Here's what they said:(Your views are wecome, and will appear in a future issue of the TechnoManifesto

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Welfare Reform: Up Close and Personal

A speech given by Chanda Peteres, program associate for LARTA, at the annual Social Workers Conference on May 15, 1997

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techdujour
Tech Du Jour

Events, happenings, information and legislation affecting the region's buinesses and econonmy.

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NASA Corner
NASA Supports Technology in the Region

USC and NASA team up to help LARTA make the TechnoManifesto availible online

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Found In Space

NASA teams with LARTA to provide small businesses with the how-tos for electronic procurement opportunies

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Other Stories
CalTIP Pays Off

LARTA supports twenty-eight companies with grant.

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The Inland Empire Strikes Back

Kelly Space & Technology, In. is in business to make commercial access to space afordable and routine via reusable launching system.


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Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

As of August 1, 1997 the Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance will be located at USC's Egg Company 2, the Annengerg Incubator project for new media businesses.


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Aerospace&Defense: The Transformation Continues

LARTA, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Econnomic Development Corporation, and with pro bono assistance from A. T. Kearney, is conducting a study of the aerospace & defense idustry in Southern California.


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Small Business Forum

In July, Senator Adam Schiff, 21st District, hosted a conference at Glendale Community College to provide information to small buiness owners and operators.


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The Finland Station

LARTA's Global Technology Partners program is the next stop on the weay to a new collaborative in an emerging global econonmy.


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