Technology

The Benefits of Connecting with Young People

9 Nov 2018

Trish Lopez founded Teeniors™, a multi-award-winning startup that includes tech-savvy teens and young adults who help older adults learn technology through one-on-one, personalized coaching. In an interview with the Milken Institute Center...

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Trish Lopez

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Building a Knowledge Economy—How Academic R&D Supports High-Tech Employment

2 Sep 2020

Universities play an important role in determining a region’s capacity for innovation and to transform new ideas into economic activity. Not only do they educate the local workforce—creating human capital—and produce intellectual property...

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2017 California Summit Review: California Leading

24 Aug 2020

California’s economic landscape is a platform that fosters global engagement by bringing together leaders from around the world in both public and private sectors to forge partnerships, address global challenges, and innovate technology and...

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Kevin Klowden, Carlo De La Cruz, Matt Horton, Jessica Jackson, Lauren Klausen, Joe Lee, Michael Lin, Minoli Ratnatunga, Carolyn Karo Schulman, Arpita Sharma, and Rebecca Simon

24 Aug 2020

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Tale of Two Cities: From Farmland to Tech Mecca

2 Sep 2020

While the San Francisco Bay Area's Silicon Valley and China’s Shenzhen operate under two different and distinct political and economic systems, both have been recognized as innovation and technology hubs with unique economic success. This...

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Michael C.Y. Lin and Perry Wong

2 Sep 2020

News Release

Milken Institute Reveals Scope and Threats to California’s Multi-Billion Dollar Video Game Industry

13 Feb 2018

SACRAMENTO, February 13, 2018 – California is facing growing domestic and international competition for its thriving video game industry, part of the state’s $32 billion software publishing sector, according to a report released today by...

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Milken Institute

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Future-Proofing the Video Game Industry in California

24 Aug 2020

Today, all 50 U.S. states have a video game industry presence, and 21 of those states offer financial incentives. California has a considerable lead, accounting for 27 percent of the nation’s interactive entertainment industry, but...

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Kevin Klowden and Rebecca Simon

24 Aug 2020

News Release

Milken Institute Releases Index of Best-Performing Cities

9 Jan 2018

SANTA MONICA, January 10, 2018 – Provo-Orem, UT, with its robust high-tech sector and broad-based job and wage growth, is the Best-Performing City in the United States, according to the Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities 2017 Index...

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Research and Data Tools

Best-Performing Cities Europe

3 Dec 2017

The Milken Institute’s inaugural Best-Performing Cities Europe index provides a way to measure which European regions offer the greatest opportunities for prosperity across the continent. The ranking measures metropolitan areas economic...

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How Universities Drive Innovation in Aging

13 Nov 2017

Aging is big business. A growing demand for everything from comfortable shoes to on-call caregivers prompted a New York Times headline to declare baby boomers as the hottest start-up market in 2016. In fact, the sum of all economic activity...

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Learning the Ropes Later in Life

12 Nov 2017

A growing number of people feel like an old carton of milk, with an expiration date stamped on their wrinkled foreheads. One paradox of our time is that Boomers enjoy better health than ever, remain young and stay in the workplace longer...

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Chip Conley

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