Outgoing Intel Chairman Craig Barrett warns that Gov. Jan Brewer and the Legislature are moving Arizona in the “wrong direction” and said the state needs to develop a better understanding of what “competitiveness” means.
Barrett told The Arizona Republic:
The fact that the Legislature chose to balance the budget by killing the funding for Science Foundation Arizona was absolutely a move in the wrong direction, and also I think the burden they're putting on the universities in terms of support of the universities is in the wrong direction . . .
Arizona sometimes (thinks) what we need to be competitive is 'We have to be better than New Mexico or California.' An international company cares less about whether you're competitive with the neighboring state. We care about whether you're competitive with Bangalore or Shanghai or a place that really is concerned about the 21st century. I think Arizona's still kind of caught between the 19th and 21st centuries.
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