After hustling together a group of business leaders to figure out what it would take to spur job growth in Colorado, Democrat Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall and Gov. John Hickenlooper shipped the findings to President Barack Obama on Wednesday, a week before he is set to unveil his jobs plan.
The report, called Colorado Competes, doles out policy recommendations from leaders in the state’s clean-energy, bioscience and aerospace industries. Those recommendations include drawing capital to small and upstart businesses, incentivizing advanced manufacturing and creating a predictable business environment.
“As a delegation, we are committed to working together to build the right environment in Colorado and the country,” Hickenlooper, Bennet and Udall said in the letter to the president. “We believe that the Colorado Competes Report serves as a good template.”
Bennet put the group together earlier this year to try to promote economic competition within Colorado.
Those who participated included Mark Sirangelo, head of Sierra Nevada Space Systems, and Holli Riebel, president of the Colorado Bioscience Association. The business leaders held a series of meetings in the past several months to compile their recommendations. Allison Sherry, The Denver Post
