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The document proposes establishing Design Corps studios across rural Midwest towns to address the "missing link" between inventors/researchers and companies. The studios would be led by locally hired "gifted and talented" staff and students to identify, redesign, and commercialize inventions through patents sold to hometown companies. This would create high-paying design jobs while keeping profits local. The studios would operate as nonprofit networks to efficiently develop products for national markets. Support from town leaders and private funding of $200,000 per county annually could help launch the initiative to revitalize these communities.