What You Missed: Open for Questions with Secretary Locke

Last week, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Fast Company  hosted a special live chat to answer your questions about this Administration's role in promoting innovation-based, high-growth entrepreneurship.

You can check out the full video of the chat or use the links below to jump directly to the questions you're interested in.

Questions are paraphrased.

• What plans are in place to increase the privacy protection for consumers in the electronic marketplace?
• What steps are being put into place to encourage corporations to keep research jobs here in the US?
• What mechanisms are in place to keep universities from competing head to head with small businesses in terms of research?
• Do you contemplate any special investments made directly to Minority communities?
• What role do you envision broadband playing in increasing entrepreneurship?
• Where does the Government stand in promoting small businesses in burgeoning technology industries?
• Are you working on any new initiatives resulting from the recent trip to India?
• What steps are you taking to help small businesses?
• How will councils help companies bringing new technologies to markets survive the endless Federal approval process?
• Follow-up: How is access to capital for small businesses being expanded?
• What sort of pressure is the Department of Commerce putting on banks to give loans to businesses?
• What projects are you undertaking to address the patent process?
• What is the time frame for reforming the patent process?
• How can the incentive to move manufacturing offshore be reduced?
• What are some of the ways that you are increasing access to capital for small businesses other than the Recovery Act?
• Why do you think that small business owners are not aware of some of the tax cuts available to their companies?