New NDN/NPI Essay - Reorganizing Government Beyond The Beltway

My colleague Morley Winograd and I wrote a new piece up at Huffington Post today that weaves together some of the exciting, bottom up innovation success stories that are bubbling up across the country with some new public opinion research.  This piece is designed to preview some new ways to think about the coming discussions and debate on streamlining 21st century government.  

The approach we advocate is not about more government or less government -- it's about creating a federal government that sets a clear, national competitiveness strategy to meet our global economic challenges and then empowers local communities and businesses to deliver the desired outcomes. People at the local level best know the economic needs and assets of their communities, and federal resources and public-private partnerships can be of enormous help in enabling these communities to realize the opportunities they see and create a new model for "bottom-up" growth. These ideas are at the heart of the Obama administration's new Growth Zones, Jobs and Innovation Acceleration Competition and Startup America initiatives which are at varying stages of development and deployment.

Morley of course knows his stuff and it was great to partner on this piece: he earlier served as senior policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore and director of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) from 1997-2001.