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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting -June 4, 2010 <br />businesses that consider locating here. <br />Technology start-ups need access to interns. <br />She hears that everywhere she goes. Tenants <br />complain about not having enough interns. <br />You'd think a research university would have <br />ample interns available. Plus, the businesses <br />want help writing the job description, help <br />putting the advertisement in the newspaper. <br />How do we get to this point? Visualize four <br />columns, equidistant apart, supported by <br />beams and connected to each of the other <br />columns. You end up with a square of <br />beams, an X through the center, supported by <br />four columns. Those four columns are <br />collaboration, focus, education and funding. <br />Those four things are absolutely crucial to <br />marketing a tech park . <br />Collaboration has to happen in the public <br />sector. The city must streamline its public <br />policy procedures. We must make it <br />seamless for companies to move from <br />Innovation Park to Ignition Park. And we <br />must make it simple to come to our town and <br />end up at Ignition Park. South Bend has to <br />do it because our competition is doing it. <br />We have to have a retail focus. The larger <br />the better. Because everyone is demanding <br />it. Foundation grant review boards are <br />demanding it. Employee search are <br />demanding it. Corporate search are <br />demanding it. The tenants are demanding it. <br />They need it because they understand that the <br />broader the region the greater the support and <br />the greater the potential impact. We need to <br />be thinking broadly here. <br />Some of this is happening. Collaboration is <br />happening. For example, with patent <br />12 <br />