ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by reviewing various definitions of technologically dependent industry (TDI) used in policy research and their relationship to economic restructuring. The effects on TDI expected from traditional state policies for higher education and transportation are posed as significant in pursuing technology objectives. State policies for technology and industrial innovation are quite novel because they place state government in wholly unfamiliar territory: directly stimulating the innovative/technological phase of capitalist development. Public university systems have become important policy actors in their state's technology policy initiatives. Transportation system policies are long-standing measures used by states to foster economic activity of nearly every sort. Simple employment growth rates or firm formation rates are inherently self-referencing and at best imply some limited direct growth effect on a regional economy. The beneficial effects of TDI being connected with air transportation should be revealed through statistically defined relationships as well.
