Massachusetts shines in tech study, Calif. loses luster

Being in the tech business myself, not only having created software in the recent past and currently working in health care, I do have to say it has been a difficult road to go in many ways and education is a large portion of the issue. One of the big problems I have found is an overall resistance to the mobility move, in other words having Internet connectivity and the availability of information while on the move has not quite set in yet. I do quite a bit with mobile devices and write about such on this blog and yet I walk in with a connected “tablet PC” or a potential data solution and sometimes it can be like talking to the wall. We still do have some of the best absolute talent in California; however the resistance to change and educate others with a sense of passion is still alive and well unfortunately at times.

Unless the overall end users are actively engaged in wanting to learn and make technology work for them, it’s a real uphill battle. The captain of every ship is the key to success and perhaps that may be another area worth addressing, some new captains or perhaps steering the current ones in a new positive direction.

Perhaps someday we will have a common user interface such as shown in the video in healthcare as is being created and developed by the NHS in the UK, and here’s another story about the $150,000 Polenator that has been developed in Massachusetts…perhaps these are some of the area whereby others have jumped ahead in the polls…BD

Massachusetts remains the "gold standard" for mining economic growth from technology and science while California is losing its luster, according to a study released Thursday. The report by the Milken Institute has ranked Massachusetts as the United States' top technology incubator all three times that it has been compiled since 2002. But California slipped from second place for the first time, despite being home to Silicon Valley's fount of innovation.