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Item Advancing a Defense Collaborative in Minnesota: Insights from Defense and Innovation Initiatives(2020-08-15) Lanz, Marco; Maanibe, Gabriel; Nitzkorski, Dylan; Starry, DonAcross the United States, organizations are studying the successes and failures of ecosystems like Silicon Valley. As Secretary of Defense Ash Carter emphasizes, there appears to be a formula for its unparalleled technological evolution. Where once the U.S government was instrumental in driving technological innovation, it can no longer compete with the advancement, voracity, and speed of the private sector. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) embraces the reality that partnering with the private sector is critical for the nation’s security and defense. GREATER MSP’s initiative, the Minnesota Security Project, seeks to partner with the DoD and capitalize on future defense priorities. As an initial part of this newly created initiative, GREATER MSP sought additional research from students as part of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs’ capstone program. Our report focuses on understanding those priorities and how other organizations successfully market to key DoD decision makers; it provides insight into existing defense related economic development initiatives to help identify best practices and capability gaps for Minnesota; and lastly, it identifies areas that receive the most DoD funding and how they align with the Minnesota Security Project. We identified and synthesized key data by using a mixed-methods research design. The literature review identified that DoD and private sector collaboratives remain largely unstudied. Furthermore, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provisions did not permit access to governmental contracts related to DoD initiatives. However, sources such as non-classified government data, informational interviews, and research into existing state and regional defense-oriented economic development initiatives informed critical findings.Item Dataset: U.S. Public University Responses to Public Records Requests for Structured Data(2021-03-10) Anderson, Jonathan; Wiley, Sarah K.; and08164@umn.edu; Anderson, JonathanThis dataset is the product of a study that assessed how public universities in the United States respond to public records requests of varying complexity for structured data. When a university provided a substantive response, the following variables were coded: 1. Nature of response: Whether the university produced responsive data, produced or offered different data than what we requested, asserted there were no records, required prepayment before processing, required in-person inspection, or denied the request. 2. Response time: The number of business days (i.e., omitting weekends and holidays) from the day after a request was filed to the day a substantive response was received. 3. Format: The format that data were released: Excel, CSV, PDF, or web page. 4. New record: Whether the university expressly asserted that it is not obligated to create a new record in response to a public records request. 5. Fee estimate: The amount of money a university estimated it would cost to process the request.Item Fall 2004 Silha Bulletin, Volume 6 Number 1(University of Minnesota, 2004) University of Minnesota: Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law; Kirtley, Jane E.; Smith, Kristine; Deutsch, Andrew; Shapiro, Holiday; Hansen Maher, Kelly J.; Hargrove, ElaineItem Silha Bulletin(University of Minnesota, 2019-05) Kirtley, Jane E.; Memmel, Scott; Nordstrom, Kirsten; Wiley, Sarah; Hargrove, ElaineA publication of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and LawItem Silha Bulletin Fall 2018(University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, 2018-12) University of Minnesota: Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law; Kirtley, Jane E.; Memmel, Scott; Nordstrom, Kirsten; Wiley, Sarah; Carmody, Casey; Hargrove, ElaineA publication of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and LawItem Silha Bulletin Summer 2018(University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, 2018-08) University of Minnesota: Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law; Kirtley, Jane E.; Memmel, Scott; Norstrom, Kirsten; Hargrove, ElaineA publication of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and LawItem Silha Bulletin Summer 2019 Volume 24, No. 3(University of Minnesota, 2019-08) Kirtley, Jane E.; Memmel, Scott; Arch, Eric; Hargrove, ElaineItem Winter/Spring 2010 Silha Bulletin, Volume 15, Number 2(University of Minnesota, 2010) University of Minnesota: Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law; Kirtley, Jane E.; Parsley, Jacob; DeFoster, Ruth; Snyder, Cary; Cannon, Sara