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Though a few shots were fired back and forth throughout the debate, the candidates said very little in the way of substantive economic policy actions they would take in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation. This is important because there is substantial evidence which has found that investment and development in these fields is key to the country's twenty-first century economic growth. [http://www2.itif.org/2016-clinton-vs-trump.pdf?_ga=1.265865103.1823216071.1474990123] [http://fortune.com/2016/09/25/presidential-debate-clinton-trump/] Media analysts attribute the air time devoted to the manufacturing sector as a nod to the United States's idyllic past, the good old days, if you will. [http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/09/27/495693013/episode-726-terms-of-the-debate] As future debates unfold, hopefully the candidates will devote substantive time to discussing economic policy specific to entrepreneurship and innovation, and move from idolizing the past to reinventing our country's economic future.