Kate Rubin, President of the Minnesota High Tech Association, has an article in the most recent Finance and Commerce with an Association Update, asking Are policies to aid high tech industries on their way? Here’s her short list of policies high tech businesses should be watching:

While the 2010 Legislature will have an epic challenge with Minnesota’s enormous $1.2 billion budget deficit, there are other important public-policy issues that are top-of-mind for Minnesota’s technology industries. These include: passage of a 25 percent tax credit for angel investors, funding for key science and technology higher education bonding projects, and implementing the recommendations from the Minnesota High-Speed Broadband Task Force.

The MHTA supports the Task Force recommendations. They also support an angel tax credit and bonding for the Physics and Nanotechnology Center and 20 or more Science, Technology, Engineering and Math projects requested by the Minnesota State Colleges and University System.