With competing states and regions actively investing in innovation infrastructure and workforce, it’s time for Maryland to step up to the plate and to grow our innovation economy.
To accurately understand Maryland’s current position as an innovation economy, and how much growth is needed for the state to maintain and grow its competitiveness, we conducted a study to gather information. This study, the Maryland Innovation Competitiveness Study, told of a slowing growth rate that will, if allowed to continue, negatively affect job opportunities, livelihoods, and the overall fiscal health of the State. The study advises that Maryland needs to create more opportunities for a larger and more diverse workforce including, supporting, and increasing the opportunities for underrepresented individuals to get into high technology-based education, careers, and entrepreneurial activities.
That’s where Cultivate Maryland comes in. Creating inclusive tech and startup activity will help to attract the brilliant and talented workers scattered throughout Maryland, ensuring founders, workforce, mentors, investors, and thought leaders are included and active in shaping the tech ecosystem and workforce.
Current Bills
HB 781 - Maryland Technology Development Corporation - Equitech Growth Fund and Commission
Sponsored by
Delegates Atterbeary, B. Barnes, D. Barnes, Bridges, Ebersole, Feldmark, Forbes, Kelly, Phillips, Qi, Smith, Solomon, Vogel, and Wilkins
SB 699 - Maryland Technology Development Corporation - Equitech Growth Fund and Commission
Sponsored by
Senators Augustine, Beidle, Elfreth, Feldman, Griffith, Guzzone, King, McCray, and Zucker
Other Resources
Maryland Innovation Competitiveness Study
Cultivate Maryland Presentation
Let’s Seize the Moment and Cultivate Maryland’s Innovation Ecosystem
The Equitech Growth Commission
- Troy LeMaile-Stovall, TEDCO
- Tom Sadowski, Maryland Economic Development Corporation (MEDCO)
- Heather Gramm, Department of Commerce
- Rachael Parker, Department of Labor
- Richard Kincaid, Office of College and Career Pathways, Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE)
- Christy Wyskiel, Johns Hopkins University
- Michele Masucci, University System of Maryland
- Anthony Jenkins, Coppin State University
- Jermaine Williams, Montgomery College
- Kevin Kinnally, Maryland Association of Counties
- Rodney Williams, Maryland Technology Council
- Kory Bailey, Upsurge
- Gwen Greene, AiTech
- David White, Tomorrow’s Bio Today
- Jonathan Horowitz, Washington County Maryland Department of Business Development
- Saman Qadeer Ahmad, Esq., Qade Law
- Kendra Parlock, NPower