{"64030":{"#nid":"64030","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Hicks on Government-Funded Technological Innovation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If we had left it to Lotus and IBM, we would have a couple of tiny, proprietary and fairly useless systems out there,\u0022 said Diana Hicks, Professor and Chair of the School of Public Poliy, defending technological innovation funded by the federal government. Hicks\u0027 statement contrasts recent tweets by Georgia\u0027s Republican Representative Paul Broun, which suggest the government is a barrier to innovation and development. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Politifact.com - January 25, 2011\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2011\/jan\/31\/paul-broun\/rep-paul-broun-says-innovation-would-flower-if-gov\/\u0022\u003ERead full article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2011-02-02 16:34:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:18","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"eye diagram analysis","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2011\/jan\/31\/paul-broun\/rep-paul-broun-says-innovation-would-flower-if-gov\/","dateline":{"date":"2011-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3922","name":"diana hicks"},{"id":"626","name":"public policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}