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♪ >> i am alisa parenti from washington. former acting attorney general sally yates has told a senate committee that she alerted the trump white house that michael flynn "essentially could be blackmailed by the russians." yates and james klapper testified about russian interference and last year's presidential election. despite uncertainties about whether the united states would remain committed to the paris climate accord, envoys have convened toxin germany on implementing the details of the deal to combat global warming. officials will try to agree on how to implement the paris
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agreement on cutting carbon emissions. north korea has arrested a second instructor at pyongyang university. both are u.s. citizens and accused of unspecified hostile acts. it is not clear if the arrests are part of claims that the cia had targeted him for assassination. marine le pen has lost her bid to become the first female head of france's state. she said she has set a new challenge for herself, a major makeover of her national front party. elections will be held june 11. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg
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technology." i am emily chang. this week bloomberg television and radio are on the ground and showcasing the innovation, diversity, and power of the regional economy. we are taking a look at innovators from fortune 500
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companies to startups and talking to government officials. we are joined by caroline hyde. you have a eight week ahead of you for us. what do you have? caroline: we certainly do have a big week host up boston and massachusetts is the hub for all things biotech and it is expanding its reputation for tech. general electric is banking on boston and they broke ground on the new headquarters today. the ceo spoke about the collaboration between the company and the city. >> ge has moved to one of the oldest cities in the country to create the future, whether in life sciences, renewable energy, technology, aviation, material sciences, these are things that we want to do together. caroline: it was last year when boston won the bid in a move that cost the city $25 billion in tactual he on top of an incentive package from the state. i spoke with boston mayor marty walsh about the ge deal and boston's role as a tech innovation hub and how it stacks up to silicon valley. >> the day week officially announced ge's move to boston, they gave us a check for $50 million, $25 million for
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education and $25 million for job training and also some health care stuff. we are seeing those job benefits here at ge already. have beenhat people critical of, the $25 million in terms of tax incentives, that is to get the construction of the building going, and during the course of the next 30 years, we will get in real estate taxes $67 million from that deal. what does it mean, in terms of continuing the growth and the biotech sector here in boston? >> it is important and boston has always done well in that space. you can think about the city as a great medical city tech city. , athere was a time in the 1980's where boston a massachusetts were the tech capital of the world and we lost that to silicon valley in san francisco, and
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what you are seeing now is a rejuvenation, with people coming back to the city. we are seeing that and there is a new level of curiosity about boston. we have 150,000 students going to school in our city. many of them will stay for the summer and when they graduate. so we grow every year. we have 25 colleges and universities in the boston area, so there is a lot of innovation here and a lot of synergy we can work off of. ge can help us with that. caroline: when it comes to academia, the private sector, you say you lost it to silicon valley. can you win it back? is it a case of winning? i think we can win it back. massachusetts went through a tough time in the 1980's with high taxes and political decisions that set us back a little bit and what is happening now is you have a political
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climate where everyone is looking to move our economy for and yet be innovative. the word, innovation, it is on everybody's tongue lately, whether in sports, or other types of business. we are trying to be innovative here in the city of boston and attract these great companies here. in the last three years, we have added 60,000 jobs in boston alone, so that is good growth. we did that a little bit before ge came, but ge will help us grow further. caroline: you talk about a political climate that helps with jobs and innovation. do you think the administration is helping with the political climate in boston as well? >> washington? caroline: yeah. >> no. when i say no, i hope they get to the job of governing. i would like to see them be successful. i would like the white house to the successful. i think they need to start
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focusing on governing. i am afraid about what it will do to the economy and the impact. it hasn't had an impact yet. i get concerned about all the different pieces. i am concerned about the affordable care act, the actions that congress took last week. it is not a good bill. in a city like boston and suburban cities across america, it is going to hurt hospitals, and that will start to hurt the economy. i wish they would focus on what they talked about, moving our country forward and not focus on repealing health care and to defunding nih and urban housing. caroline: boston has thrived from spending. argue worried about the research and develop an area and how it will affect biotech? >> i was. the congress passed a short-term budget and it seemed like everything is status quo. we have a little bit of an
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nih funding.n ih fundin i think it is important to stay strong on that. in boston and massachusetts, we are in this together. cambridge, other cities, a lot of discoveries and a lot of things are happening in the city and it helps us keep young people and talents here in boston. it helps our doctors and the hospitals advance -- i am a cancer survivor who was treated at dana-farber cancer institute and the children's hospital. we have important assets in the city. the cancer i had 40 years ago, is higher than when i had it. caroline: you are the son of immigrants and there is a lot of
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concern about the travel ban and what it means for talents and technology talent in silicon valley. with boston, do you feel there is a concern? >> it was a concern before hand. now, there is really a concern. in this very room where we are having this interview right up to the president came out with his executive order on the hospitals comead all the hospitals in massachusetts, colleges and universities, tech companies in this room at three different meetings, and every single one of them had the same concern about the fear of people not being able to come to america to get education or work for a company. i think that congress has spent 6-7 years on that and they need to focus on immigration. there is a way to focus on this. i think our system clearly is not working. we have undocumented people in and there america, has to be a reason, what do we do to put them on a pathway to citizenship or figure out what
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to do and then look at the work visa program. we have these high-tech companies getting visas. that's not good enough people we are going to have people getting educated here in america and we are going to send them back home. it does not make sense. i hope congress and the senate can get together and come up with some good comprehensive legislation. caroline: that was marty walsh, mayor of boston. joining me to talk about the ecosystem here in the city is cory johnson. fighting talk from marty walsh. are you hearing it replicated on your radio show? cory: the move of the technology industry from massachusetts to silicon valley happened a long time ago, and there are a lot of companies to talk about here. i think that the move of ge
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, i love that it happened to coincide with us being here today. everyone was talking last year this event and this year, looking at ge's big move doubling down. it is the sign of boston coming back in a big way, not just the internet business, but the startup scene here. there are some of the tools that silicon valley has. great academic institutions, a financial community to back things. i think they look at the success of silicon valley and they're trying to figure out how to get it back here. caroline: >> i have heard from the president of harvard and marty walsh, the mayor of boston, the concerns about immigration. cory: you can expect boston and the people of massachusetts to fight hard against any republican administration.
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that said, there is a real sense of a business community and the democratic mayor working with the republican governor. these are guys who actually know each other and like each other quite well and work well together on business issues, and that is a big issue for business people in massachusetts and new england. they want to see the democratic mayor and the republican governor working together to help business to get a sense of community here. caroline: we will be speaking to that republican governor a little bit later. cory johnson, bloomberg editor at large joining us there. he is joining us here and also on the radio. sinclair brought cast group is buying tribune media for $3.9 billion. it marks the first big acquisition since regulators eased a limit on television ownership. buying tribune would give sinclair access to big markets
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like new york, chicago, and miami. plenty more "bloomberg technology" from boston coming up. we will take a look at ibm and and see how it is using its watson technology to come up with the next medical breakthrough. if you like bloomberg news, you can check us out on the radio. bloombergsten on the radio app, bloomberg.com, and in the u.s. on serious xm. this is bloomberg. ♪
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caroline: welcome back to this special edition of "bloomberg technology" live from boston.
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as we have discussed, boston is home to a number of big-name tech companies. one of them is ibm. "bloomberg technology" this is ibm in cambridge, massachusetts. there, the company's cognitive technology watson, famed for winning jeopardy, is now applying its deep learning from everything from technology to cyber attacks. >> ibm was founded in new york. the company has grown into a technology powerhouse. it makes cambridge, massachusetts as its space. ibm security got its start in boston in 2011. >> through the acquisition, we have since grown to 8000 people and we are operating in 133 countries around the world and we have not stopped acquiring companies. more than one dozen companies focused on cybersecurity. >> ibm security brings into
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billion dollars in annual revenue, and is using watson to monitor potential cyber attacks on its clients around the world. ibm's vice president of security explains how the company applies the technology. about of the real things watson that makes it advantageous for ibm and our customers is its ability to parse massive amounts of information. caroline: and they offer customers a chance to face a simulated cybertek, which ibm believes is a crucial tool. building on the success, they have set up a health care unit in cambridge. ibm's chief health officer explains why ibm has laid its roots down in the city. >> there is extraordinary talent to recruit from an extraordinary partnerships that we have evolved and continue to evolve a and there is such a hotbed of innovation and creativity. caroline: ibm is pairing that talent of watson in the hopes of
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coming up with the next medical breakthrough. >> one of the great parts of watson is that it is a system that understands natural language. it has been trained to the best doctors from cleveland clinic mayo clinic, understand to literature. >> it has partnered with companies to make progress in the fields of drug discovery and analyzing patient data. last quarter, revenue from ibm's cognitive solutions business billion, but its biggest breakthroughs are likely still to come. >> what i believe we have here data stethoscope come the ability to translate this data and bring insights to an end user, dr., policymaker, so they can make better and smarter decisions out of that. now, beyond boston,
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here are some more headlines grabbing our attention. another shot has been fired in .he bidding war bidder has been revealed as verizon. stock surged after the news. you will remember that at&t agreed to buy straight path for $1.6 billion. this gives at&t three days to match the offer. now, akamai is focusing on cybersecurity and machine learning services as its legacy internet content delivery business slows. we will discuss their plans with their ceo next from boston. this is bloomberg. ♪
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♪ from boston, this is a special edition of "bloomberg technology." we are now joined by the ceo of akamai, one of the largest tech employers in massachusetts. the company is located in cambridge, where it is expanding. ecosystem ofs the academic you have partnered with businesses here? >> it is fabulous and it starts with the university system. you have several of the best universities here, dozens of universities training technical talent, great place for hiring, and a great work ethic. people stay with companies for longer here than you often see in the valley. caroline: interestingly, a lot of startups have been spawned by former akamai employees. 39 startups no less have
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been born from your company. is the talent pool big enough? are you worried about curbs to immigration and getting foreign talent into the u.s. as well as homegrown? >> we have a great talent pool the starting with universities. we do worry about immigration. it is important to attract the best talent from around the world. at akamai, we are working to increase the talent pool. we have a program called the akamai technical academy where we trained primarily women and minorities who do not have a technical background to take a technical job at akamai and that is a really exciting program for us. is somethingt silicon valley is coming under pressure for, the lack of diversity. how is diversity at akamai and in the boston area? >> diversity is a challenge in
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all of tech. that is why we are making efforts to improve it by increasing the talent pool through training, grants through stem related education, we sponsor girls who code, every can to try to help diversity in tech. caroline: is the current white house administration helping with diversity? >> well, i am not directly familiar there, but i think it is something we have to take on ourselves, to improve the situation, certainly in massachusetts, where there is interest in doing that. i'm interested in your viewpoint of how the current white house is doing for your ecosystem and the economy here in massachusetts? is it positive or negative? >> it remains to be seen. i think the changes in the taxes could be beneficial. we would like to see, not have
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curbs on immigration, visas, and travel. we want to see what happens with net neutrality. caroline: talk to me about net neutrality. you serve internet service providers. how much are you affected by it? are you pleased by the fcc's moves? >> we were not regulated before, so it does not directly affect us. i think it probably does help our carriers from our partners. most of the the content companies are customers and we will still deliver the traffic within the major carriers. there are probably a couple of content companies that are less happy, but on balance, i think it will be fine. caroline: talk to us about the business. there was a significant fall in share price in reaction to your numbers. how did you tried to ease the investor concern? verythink akamai is healthy. we are growing at a good clip.
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and we have two major lines of business, one is around performance and security, which is 60%,. 18%. it is doing great. security products on fire, growing at nearly 40%, and we have a media business that delivers a lot of video, and that business is doing well, but not growing as fast as it did, so it grew about 1% year over year. so the street wanted to see more growth there and they worry a lot about quarter to quarter changes in traffic. media traffic spikes up and goes through valleys. we are in a little bit of a valley now, but everybody believes that ott and video is coming. we are in a great position to benefit because we deliver a lot of that traffic. caroline: i am pleased that you came does here in boston, the home of akamai. that was the ceo speaking with us. coming up, the boston pops is
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kicking off its 117th season this week. we will talk to the man who has been leading the orchestra about the changes and how they are using new technology to bring music to the masses. this is bloomberg. ♪
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>> it is 11:29 in hong kong. these are the latest first word news headlines. ,oting underway in south korea featuring concerns about trade ties and its aggressive northern neighbor. allegations of corruption and government dominated the campaign. the incoming philippine central bank governor has pledge continuity and monetary policy and banking reforms. it is one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
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the three decade veteran of the monetary authority says he will follow a data dependent approach, which is worked well for his predecessor. reservationsas about indian shares. a gauge of real estate stocks has fallen 62%. the government has been easing policy for the sector after it was hit hard by last year's cash ban. a senior manager says it has yet to see meaningful cash flow and de-leveraging. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. little direction and asian equity markets, swings in tokyo, hong kong, and chinese stocks. .3%, 39% of the shanghai composite listed shares indicating oversold signals, some buying action there.
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to break the longest losing streak in three years. leadingare index is now gains among regional benchmarks, and we also have a hong kong hang seng rising higher with tencent contribute the most points to that benchmark. elsewhere, australian stocks paring losses ahead of the federal budget. $.74,ssie dollar below further drops from that march retail sales number weaker than anticipated. theing at some movers in region, harvey norman dropping in sydney falling that retail sales number, and one of the biggest climbers in the region, speculation that china is looking to merge power players. a last look at sony shares coming back from the break, the stock has risen over 2%. sony has been going through a
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sincerestructuring effort the ceo took over in 2012, an analyst from goldman said jeffrey state the company will pull through with a record profit for this fiscal year, so shares on the up. ♪ caroline: welcome back to this special edition of "bloomberg technology." i'm caroline hyde. we are live from boston all this week, showcasing the innovation , diversity, and power of this cities tech economy. the boston pops opened its 117th , it's thed the theme music of former conductor and maestro john williams. the pops recently recorded and help him of his music in a high tech, state-of-the-art studio many concertgoers don't even know exists. ♪ >> start with a little of this,
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add some of this, and after two hours of keith lockhart leading the boston pops, you will have a recording of the selected works of maestro john williams. >> it's the soundtrack of our time. john can write a melody better than anybody else. you say star wars. it comes into your head. ♪ you say "et," and you hear it in your head. ♪ >> the recording is overseen and supervised by nick squire, one of the few full-time sound engineers employed by any u.s. orchestra. >> it is visually appealing. it sounds great, and it really allows us to record and listen to the orchestra and make sure we are making the right
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decisions when we move mics or mixing in this space. ♪ >> the recording studio recently underwent a quarter million dollar upgrade. it is arguably the most advanced in the country. the split wood paneling makes for a better sound, as do the speakers. the improvements were carried out by the walter historic design group who also counts jay-z and alicia keys as clients. >> we are maybe along with one or two of the european orchestras, we are one of the top orchestras recorded in the world. >> the profit from such recordings once represented as much is 15% of the boston 70 orchestras income. in 2015, of the $46 million taken in, media represented just over 1%. >> it used to be that you would tour to sell recordings, and now if you record, you are trying to drive people to concerts. it is a branding play, a
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promotion play. >> that visibility comes in other ways, too, like the deal the boston symphony orchestra made with google play music to make some of its performance is available for streaming or download. ♪ >> after the concert, conductor lockhart will come down for a listen to see how things went, but for now, he is in full performance mode. so that every note captured for posterity is just right. caroline: that was bloomberg's tom maroney reporting. joining us now, keith lockhart, conductor of the boston pops. a quick correction, it is the 132nd season. >> but who is counting? caroline: you are. you are a man who's been here for more than two decades. you are a man who has done something like 1800? >> i have lost count of that. caroline: we will talk about technology and how it has changed the music you have brought to life.
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keith: it's hard to describe in the 23 years i've been there how much technology has changed has nous, and that choice but to influence what we do for the symphony. when i came to the pops, i didn't have a cell phone, and i didn't have any mail address. now the ubiquity of the web, the way we get our entertainment, how culture, our information has changed so profoundly. orchestras are very old, very analog sort of thing. it has been our goal in the last couple of decades to catch up with the way the world sees this information. caroline: you have been making joint ventures, partnering with the likes of google play. what about other areas and avenues you would like to see to help boost the consumption of the music that you make? keith: i think a lot of it has to do with the dissemination of our products, making our stage larger, if you will. certainly, our upcoming relationship with bloomberg as sole platform, but being seen
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worldwide, ubiquitous, it's an amazing change for us and something i hope we do more of. what we have to do is get out of the concert hall as much as we can to bring people into the concert hall. caroline: you do that. you do get out of the concert hall. here you have the boston pops, which is a spectacle in front of half a million people, but you are also a man who travels and conducts in australia, japan, u.k., germany. how does boston compare when you are looking internationally? keith: i am very blessed with my home in boston. this is a place that is both very, very old and very committed to its traditions, and very new and changing all the time. it's a dynamic place. there is a huge hunger for arts, learning, culture here. it makes it a great place to make music. no matter how much i enjoy conducting, and i have a great opportunity to go all of the world, i'm always grateful to come back to boston. caroline: july the third and the fourth is when boston pops will
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be performing for the masses. the hairs on get the back of your neck standing on end? keith: when we get to the end of the concert and launch into tchaikovsky's "1812 overture," something that has become part and parcel of a celebration, when i get to that and i know we have done a good job, that is when i allow the hairs to stand up on the back of my neck. caroline: keith lockhart, thank you very much indeed for joining us. keith lockhart, boston pops conductor. and of course, bloomberg is a sponsor of the boston pops. not to a stock we are watching for you. apple's record run continued monday, pushing the company's market cap past $800 billion for the first time ever. that makes it the most valuable public company ever. , biotech executives and the heads of the national institutes of health met with a vice president mike pence monday. their goal, defend
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government-sponsored research after the president's budget proposal sought deep cuts. $5.8 billion next year. the meeting, which was attended by first daughter if on could ivanka trump, examines the relationship between government, universities, and industry with aims of maintaining america's place in the field of biomedical discovery. coming up, how universities plan to change the future in the boston area. that is next. from boston, this is bloomberg. ♪
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caroline: welcome back to this special edition of "bloomberg technology" live from the boston convention and exhibition center. now i want to welcome in our next guest. -- the wealth who of expense you have across government, regulation, business. can throwo much i your direction, but primarily when it comes to to education and you are role, how are you -- -- >> that is one of my favorite questions. i have been at bentley for 10 years now. i have to say, one thing i have learned coming out of a global recession is that graduates today need a deep dive into subject matter, skills, and
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knowledge, and still need broad liberal arts, critical thinking, communication skills, both left and right brain thinkers. for example, we have a health industry major. a sustainability science major. the kids who are about biosciences or climate change can come to bentley and study something they are passionate about. i swear if they get a degree in finance too, the biotech , startups, they will be the kids who are hired. they can read a balance sheet. you actually need both. talking of the kids come as you call them, coming in, where are they coming from? how much of it is international? how much is that under pressure by recent moves by the white house? >> i have to tell you. we were a little bit surprised. you just don't know until the numbers come in. the deadline nationally was may 1 for kids will be freshmen in college to get their down payment in, and we have gone up
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this next year in our international portion. so it is up now to a little over 15% undergraduates. that is great. we think to have international kids in the classroom with u.s. kids from ross the country is the right way to go. it is actually the marketplace that they will be going into. we were surprised given some of the hesitancy we heard about, given some of the new administration's statements and actions. i think the real impact we are seeing, and we will all see, is in the graduate school area. tohink if you have to decide leave your job for a year, you are going to be a little bit more and see as opposed to a kid who is 18 and wants to come from a dread to school in the u.s.. caroline: interesting. let's shift the conversation to the private sector. i'm sure our audience can hear the hubbub around a spirit we are surrounded by business leaders. >> i feel like i know them all. >> boston chamber of commerce all gathered here.
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it working with them to ensure you get the right skill sets. partnerships between higher ed and companies didn't used to exist, not in any great, strong numbers. with the recession, we can come out from under a bubble. today, to have companies come in and help you think about your curriculum, how to shape it for the future companies who want the best telecom a work with our career services team to make sure they will get a foot in the door, and i think having companies talk to about the skills they actually need as opposed to the things we might think up on our own, it's a really good idea. it's one of those things you wished 20 years ago we had known about this. caroline: it's a wealth of only asce you had, not a lawyer, but working in education, but you did interesting work with the fcc.
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you were working as a regulator. go back to that time now, and if you are confronted by google and facebook of today, how would you be looking at them? do you think the regulatory environment is the right one? >> here's my own agenda, if you will, my philosophy about regulation. regulation works best when the pendulum does not swing too far in either direction. we don't need laissez-faire. you need fair rules of the road in the marketplace, but at the same time, you don't need command and control, heavy-handed regulations. i think we've seen the pendulum over the last 30 years ago in both her actions. i actually think a more centrist position, where you invite companies to the table, particularly companies that have not traditionally been regulated like the tech industry, you are thinking about what might work so that consumers feel safer about privacy, for example, or cyber issues. getting company ceos to the table to talk through where
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things should be going, i think, works every time. so i am hopeful that in the new administration that we don't see a return to laissez-faire. i hope we are seeing something that works in the middle for everyone. caroline: now you will be going to the business community, getting around the table. thank you so much. it's wonderful to have you with us. >> thank you. caroline: bentley university president joining us there. up next, we will be speaking to none other than the massachusetts governor charlie baker and get his take on last week's health care vote in the future of innovation in the state. that's next. this is bloomberg. ♪
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caroline: welcome back to this special edition of "bloomberg technology." we are live from boston all this week, and i want to welcome our special guest, governor charlie baker. we are happy to have you here at this table. charlie, number one state in terms of digital economic growth, number one state in terms of r&d per capita. had you maintain that focusing growth? governor baker: the most important thing we need to do is to build on what has been successful. we're talking about robotics or cybersecurity or so many areas associated with our internet. we have a lot of the raw material and intellectual capital people are looking for. that means continuing to invest on a public-private basis. a lot of people are creating jobs in this space. it's also a lot of the research
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we do. we have put over $100 million of state money along federal funds, employer funds, and college and university funds, a series of advanced technology investments, which we think are going to continue to roll this whole train forward. caroline: this is all you can do from a state level. when you are looking from a white house and country level, how much do think the support is there for you to continue the investment? governor baker: we are a great example of that. the recent discussion about what the national institutes of health should be funded at, a big discussion about whether that should be cut. we have the largest share per capita and on a gdp basis of nah funding in the country, and we should. a lot of the most important inquiries and discoveries are done right up the street from here. caroline: it's only a temporary budget up until september. is it a stay of execution? governor baker: look of the
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, one things i felt good about when that conversation started was the fact that this is one thing republicans and democrats seem to agree on and washington, which is investment in research, discovery, and inquiry, translate into solutions and become products. i feel pretty good about that. we will continue to work with our colleagues in other states and other delegations. there are a lot of people in d.c. who get why these investments pay off. caroline: you made a demonstrative speech at the beginning of the year, really talking about how political dialogue perhaps is not where it should be. do you think political dialogue after the first 100 days is improving? >> in washington? caroline: and indeed from a state level as well. governor baker: my mother, god rest her soul, is a democrat. my father was a republican. i grew up just believing that there is more than one point of view, and in public life, if you can't find ways to work with
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people you don't always agree with, you will never get anywhere. i take pride in the fact that ge who just broke ground on their corporate headquarters today said that one of the things they appreciated was the fact that a democrat mayor of boston and republican governor seem to get along, and that is something they have not seen in many places. caroline: we are talking about that relationship you have built with private companies. ge, there were some tax benefits in it for general electric. how much are you going out and starting these joint ventures? you talked about public-private partnerships. governor baker: it big part of what we do is make sure the investments we make generate a return, whether we are investing in transportation, higher education, or some of these joint initiatives around advanced manufacturing, the next generation of fibers and materials, which is being led by him a tee. -- by m.i.t.
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we are a player in those investments, but there are other people putting a lot more money in then we are, including the federal government. caroline: i do think that we can reclaim our crown. do you think you can? do you think it is a race? baker: i don't know if i would call it a race. i would prefer to think of it as a competition. i think we start with many of the most important ingredients. the biggest thing we start with is this incredible ecosystem of colleges and universities. we have great schools here, lots of stem graduates, number one in ap scores in the country. also, the only state that has ever finish first on the national education assessment exam for high schoolers, we've done it six years in a row. i do believe that one of the things that really separates us from any others is the quality of our school system. and the quality of our education infrastructure generally.
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caroline: quick last question -- number one priority for the rest of 2017 for you at a state level? governor baker the thing i : always hear about his young is that young people and young families need more housing. we are going to continue to make big investments in workforce housing. we're also going to continue to make big investments in our transportation system. we have one of the great problems, which is that everyone works around here. there's a lot of traffic in the morning and afternoon. we need to do a lot of things to make sure we can provide transportation, and we are going to continue to invest in the things that have made us successful, hopefully alongside a lot of those colleagues in the public, non-for profit, and private sectors. caroline: charlie baker, thank you so much for giving so much of your time. we will see how that focus on inequality continues. governor baker: look forward to having the same conversation next year. caroline: thank you very much indeed, the governor of massachusetts. a fascinating conversation. let's get back to you in san francisco. emily: thank you.
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tell us quickly what you've got on tap this week. we are going to be live all week there. caroline: i know. we are going to have so many great conversations. we have a deep dive into dell emc. we will be going inside their labs. that is it for "bloomberg technology." ♪
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