LG Guadagno on the Innovation State

Trenton, NJ - It is a pleasure to join New Jersey Business magazine for its Innovative State issue. New Jersey has proven again and again that it is a true home for innovation, strengthening its legacy with ongoing support for discovery. This issue highlights many of those businesses and organizations that redefine New Jersey’s legacy every day.

We have more scientists and engineers per capita than anywhere else in the world, but we also know that it’s the high quality of those minds that matters most. That’s where New Jersey truly shines. For example, I recently met with several of New Jersey’s Nobel Laureates who have substantially changed the way we have interacted with each other and our world over the last seventy years. New Jersey ranks among the top US life science clusters and among the top states for biotechnology growth potential, space and defense manufacturing and information technology and high technology job growth. Our days of leading innovation are far from over, and a new era is just beginning.

In March, I announced the kick-off of the Million Women Mentors program in New Jersey to recruit 6,000 mentors for young women with an interest in pursuing STEM education and careers. If we encourage the next generation to get enthusiastic about STEM opportunities at an early age, we can equip them with the tools to make the game-changing discoveries of the future and be a major part of our continuing legacy of innovation.

Our future is brighter than ever thanks to all the innovators who have built our past and strengthened our present.

Sincerely,

Kim Guadagno
Lt. Governor