Oklahoma innovation leader urges efforts to reach younger students

But at the end of the day, it's not so much another specific program Oklahoma needs. Rather, we should direct our collective intention and focus on encouraging our state's young people toward entrepreneurship as a career path to future satisfaction and wealth.

We need to consider daily whether there is more we could be doing to grow the state's next crop of entrepreneurs. It's true that what we hold important is typically what we accomplish.

Scott Meacham is president and CEO of i2E Inc., a nonprofit corporation that mentors many of the state's technology-based startup companies. i2E receives state appropriations from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology. Contact Meacham at i2E_Comments@i2E.org.