“We are not talking about a disaster movie here,” said Carl Van Horn, director for the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, who is a member of the New Start New Jersey advisory board. “But we are talking about something that needs serious attention.”
Profound changes in the economy since the state’s innovation heyday have made progress difficult, said James W. Hughes, dean of Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.