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For more than two decades, CONNECT has fostered entrepreneurship in the San Diego region by assisting in the formation
and acceleration of the most promising technology and life sciences businesses. San Diego’s technology community
has supported the work of CONNECT, recognizing that in today’s global economy San Diego can only remain competitive
through active efforts to link high-technology and life science entrepreneurs with the resources they need for success: technology,
money, markets, management, partners and support services.
To quantify and continue to foster the economic health and growth of San Diego’s high-technology and life sciences clusters,
CONNECT, in partnership with the San Diego Institute for Policy Research and with the support of Roth Capital Partners,
LLC, has created a new economic indicator called the CONNECT Index of Regional Innovation (CONNECT-dex).
The San Diego Institute for Policy Research is a non-partisan organization that formulates and promotes high-quality
economic, policy and public-opinion research. The objective of this combined effort is to provide an accurate measure of the
number of new start-ups created in San Diego County each quarter.
We are grateful for the support of Roth Capital Partners in underwriting this initiative. Roth shares our genuine commitment
to coordinated action to quantify and support new startup activity. As a provider of the full spectrum of investment banking
services for small- and micro-cap public companies for the past 23 years, Roth recognizes how crucial the innovation
pipeline is to our region’s economic health.
CONNECT-dex will be a valuable indicator of the vitality of San Diego’s knowledge economy – a sector that promises to
improve the quality of life for people around the world. It will enable CONNECT and our partner organizations to better represent
the interests of startups and strengthen their role in the region’s economic health. Most importantly, it will better equip
the San Diego region to address the challenges faced by nascent ventures in doing business in the region.
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| Steven Francis
Chairman and Founder
San Diego Institute for Policy Research
| Duane J. Roth
Chief Executive Officer
CONNECT
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