Applied technology and entrepreneurial spirit lay just beyond your city gates in the rural landscape. Tapping and supporting this talent requires a combination of boots-on-the-ground evangelism—“success starts right here”—and, to develop these rural assets, the support of local community colleges, tech schools, high schools and regional universities. This is an interesting paper by Michael S. Summers, Director of Technology Development and Commercialization at California State University, Fresno.