today's session is compliments -- really compliments this morning's session governor heinaman's initiative. as we learned this morning, the design of his initiative is to provide governors and state policy makers with policies and practical strategies. which i think is the key. this afternoon we'll explore how as governors we can lead efforts to create environmentses to help entrepreneurs this riv and achieve economic suck tess. our nation's success in the global economy starts in the states. states foster and encourage innovation, support industry sector clusters and champion linkages between private firms, academic institutions, research labs. governors can lead the way and often do in creating the entrepreneurial culture we need in america. my state, we're focused on this and what we can do to create a better business environment. we're focusing on key economic assets and clusters that we have, implementing policies to help our businesses, best take advantage of those regional assets and strengths, facilitating relationships between our universities and private research institutions, cr