Ian Hathaway on Startup Day

California Tech Council Podcasts

In celebration of Startup Day Across America, CTC speaks with economist Ian Hathaway of the Brookings Institution in this episode of The Innovation Agenda. Hathaway, also a member of the CTC Economic Advisory Board, discusses the importance of startups to the overall economy, the impact of startups on jobs and growth, implications for wide-ranging policy topics from regulation to immigration, and the overall declining rate of startup formation in the U.S. over 30 years. Speaking to that decline, we discuss with Ian whether we should be concerned that the American entrepreneur is an endangered species.