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p!'O\ided the hi~t0riC~1h,lSi., ofir~ p.eollomy - gaming:, mining ond defense.

!lut facing a strapped stnte budget, Nl'vnda necd" In he smart about attractil1g fedEral j'p,~3nh rlol18rs and pril'ateinwstments til create new products, new ~ornpa!li~" 'Iud eulirely new iJl(iuotric,; ""ys tl", r~p()li cntmnissioned bythe Nevada Commi!'sion on Economic Development.

T1", ""ah~is was ,'.umpleled by\Valt Hllrland, a former greell"cncrgy cx~('utiyt WllO':;no'" extcuti\'C-ill-n's;,lc'H'" atlh~ N,,,'adlljllstitlltc ufReue"-ahIe Fner;;;,yCommercialization, and .James Cmce. I\[REc"~ prc~i(lcnt il"d d,ideAee\lti\'~_

Tiley worked witll Ric.hard Sdinc. pri""il'aI ()f R~:;i()"tl()"J.tc l.l.c, a collgllIti))~ fim. in Washinp,toll, D.C.

Thl'} ilklltitie,d live url'U~ in whidl Nevada ha~ c;ignifiC;1l1texpeltise tbat can bring further innontion:

• The co,uputer simulation, modeli,,),; and j[j'a1',in,g Son"'''r~ th,,!'" been <'-reatedhy Inakers of g"min~ e'lUipmellt asW€1Ia, dcfe1l5~ contractors. This might be the ~(""lsof an indLL,lry wilh npplieMion" raugillg from security toel"~rOlHllentaI protectioll to medieal di~"'l(bi,,_

• 'l'i", ''''gineering skills that haw b""n <lewlnped for rile ~t"tc's big min;n;; and energy 1-'wjeods,"Th~ tcdmolo;;ic,nnrl knowlec1gc behind r:01l\pre~sion \'all'cs and fin;,i powe!' unit; til lift tlJllF ofiwavy llIJc,hinery in the geothemlaitideL; of northern Xe'-ad~ ark' .,imiiar t() the ,taging that lifts ildors and acrobats in Cinl\l(: rln SoI"i]":-KA.• Bod"",lami Croee wrotc_

• The state',; rxpericllce "1th development lOudnperatioll of rencw,.I)le """ri'}' ,yslems. whkh can translate inl'omo'",), mdkillg cxjlorls of pow<'" gcncrntcd in :'-le\'ada a" ,,'ell as dc,'clopmcnt of c.o1npani".-;to \\'urk with ,-e,)('\\'a])I,·s",;tcm.s eb~whet'e_

• -Skills ",illl mining ~nn met"l" rese""~h, ",J,ieh can be widenen to meet dcmand, lor advanc~d materi,']" fo,electronics. con~Ullll')' ,9,ood$ and packaging. Aclclitionall\", Ihe stmly ,ays miuerais r~Seitrdl skill, tall fillll usc iudcyclopmCllt of diet aud unt";tio" st .."tcgie,c,fo,- peol'lro.,,,,,1 ""im3k

• Th~ high-capacity bandwidth illstullcd by the US E""r~s Department alld nff(~n,,, llepm1ment in southenl'\c\""b pmvides opportllnities for testing of complex manubetul'ing ))ro,,""'''' or otI,,'!' project> thai t'~ql!ir~ hig"ilpacily.

Crelltillg CO[l1nWF'inI('''!Jeept, from those teehnologies, lhe study's authors said, ~an help the ~tate ()vcrUJ'uc itsmo~t pressing problem_

"It needs to crl'atc more jobs, and prdcn,bly new economy jobs thilt ~"" toffer Nevadans lligher sJlark~and Idlerbenetit-<;" Borland, Cro~{"and Selinl'- wrok "it i'i time for :'-ll',,'aduns to d~0ign, implement and lll:mu,~e their o\\'nfuturp r;J\lwr tI,a" ldting the filture happen to them."

.'l.l tile "om~ time, the stud" acknowledged that th~ slate gO\'l',l'Ilmcnt has limitee1 IiHJ'",," t() pul inln ~wal'ioll "fiHIHJ""li,,,,-l)"s~d iLlnuetry,

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mi,ght l~~<ll() cu",,"en>i~jiotion Aml it r~('(ltllmrll(krl thM th,>state put mouc:; into 1'~~I'\litIllClltof llll)reI~SealTller5,

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The limited usc of ~tntc moncy mng a <:lionl with LL Go,' Brian Krolicki, c1minnnll of the ,<,""ada Commission onEconomic Dc,·cIopmcnt.

"During these challenging economic limes, it is even more critieal that we "lscly spend economic devel[)pmcnldollars;' Krnlicki said.

The stndy rl'commel!(led, tn(), thai business nnd politicnllcm!ers work to attract more )lllvate·scctor capitll! inln the~tate, alon.\:with mnre management talent to hring promising tedlIlologie~ to reality.

But the state's leader;; should he WJ1"\'offaning iu low with iUllovatioIllllodels adopted in other states, the studysaid. Nevada doesn't have the mon")', the depth of academi~ research or the private inwstment c<'parity of otherstot",s.

"To go from 'zero to 60' through a whole-cloth adoption of tile Georgia or Utah models, for example, is likely to heti:aught with unin\cn(led eOllseqllcll~~ and unmel expectations," the slud)?s authors wrote.

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