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 becausethere 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/]