Tuesday, April 3

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SoFlo: TECH
INNOVATION SCATTERED -

New quango proposed to centralize tech ventures in a showcase to attract investors, using North Carolina's Research Triangle Park as an example.

''We don't want to have the next Google created in South Florida, and then have a Silicon Valley venture fund finance it and move it to Silicon Valley. We need to keep our intellectual capital here instead of exporting it.''

State Sen. Jeremy Ring, a Margate Democrat is sponsoring the Bill 2420. From 1995 to 2001 he was an executive at Yahoo. [MH]

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