{"id":5646,"date":"2012-03-14T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2012-03-26T12:03:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:03:38","slug":"otters-plan-to-stimulate-idahos-tech-economy-becomes-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/14\/otters-plan-to-stimulate-idahos-tech-economy-becomes-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Otter’s Plan To Stimulate Idaho’s Tech Economy Becomes Law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adam Bartelmay \/ Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce<\/p>

Gov. Otter signed HB 546 (IGEM) into law this afternoon<\/p><\/div>\n

Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter has signed into law his plan to kick-start<\/a> collaboration between university researchers and private industry.<\/p>\n

Otter’s IGEM, the Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission<\/a>, spends $5 million to spur local innovation through research.\u00a0 The plan sets aside $1 million in Idaho Department of Commerce grants for start-up businesses, $2 million for the Center for Advanced Energy Studies. <\/del>Another $2 million<\/del> will be split between Idaho’s three research universities.<\/p>\n

[bill id=”H 546″ state=id session=”2012″ align=left]<\/p>\n

The bill<\/a> sailed through the legislature in just four weeks, passing both chambers virtually unopposed.\u00a0 The Associated Press<\/em> reported some Idaho lawmakers did express concern:<\/p>\n

“Some lawmakers have worried Otter’s initiative, which is modeled after a Utah program, meddles too much in private industry.\u00a0 Department of Commerce director Jeff Sayer says IGEM’s benefits may not be immediate, but he’s hopeful for its potential.” – AP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

IGEM is modeled after a similarly-named program in Utah known as USTAR.\u00a0 Although, in Utah, as NPR recently reported, the state invested $100 million<\/a> into the project.<\/p>\n

<\/del>A quick Google search finds that Gov. Otter’s IGEM is not the only one out there.\u00a0 iGEM (with a lowercase ‘i’) is also the acronym for an MIT spin-off non-profit<\/a> based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their iGEM <\/strong>stands for the International Genetically Engineered Machine<\/em> Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter has signed into law his plan to kick-start collaboration between university researchers and private industry. Otter’s IGEM, the Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission, spends $5 million to spur local innovation through research.\u00a0 The plan sets aside $1 million in Idaho Department of Commerce grants for start-up businesses, $2 million for the Center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":5649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[235,27,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}