No one will deny that the American and global economies have been in an extended slump. The question is what will lead us out of the doldrums? Right now the big argument seems to be between advocates of clean energy …
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Posted in Blog, Economic Development, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Investment, Reflections & Takeaways, Research & Data, Research & Development
Tagged economic development, economic gardening, economics, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, innovation, investment, research, startup
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Here at Fourth Economy, we’re always looking for opportunities to identify and build upon local assets. This often takes the form of bringing together various stakeholders to advance specific technologies and sectors. We’re currently working on building more robust sectors …
Posted in Blog, Collaboration, Communities, Deep Thoughts, Economic Development, Innovation, Public-Private Partnership
Tagged assets, clusters, communities, economic development, Heike Mayer, innovation, manufacturing, Network, Pittsburgh, regional innovation clusters, Regions, research, Scott Dempwolf, social network analysis, technology, university
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Today in Harrisburg, Governor Corbett revealed his proposal for the 2012-2013 budget. We wanted to provide a quick summary and high-level observations to members of the economic development community. The bottom line is that there is little to be excited …
Posted in Blog, Deep Thoughts, Economic Development, Growth, Higher Education, Innovation, Investment, News, Pennsylvania, Policy, Research & Development, Science & Technology, Site Selection
Tagged Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Budget, Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement, CURE, Discovered and Developed in PA, economic development, funding, Harrisburg, health, Keystone Innovation Zone, KIZ, Life Science Greenhouses, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania First, research, Tom Corbett, universities
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IBM estimates that we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. They do not, however, estimate how much of this data is duplicated – all of the documents emailed between friends and coworkers that get stored on personal devices, …
Posted in Blog, Deep Thoughts, Economic Development, Growth, Numbers Behind the News, Policy, Research & Data
Tagged big data, data, development, economics, email, Growth, industry, information, NAICS, patents, region, research, Research & Data, social media
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In the countless instances where I’ve engaged others on important matters facing our nation, and especially challenges and opportunities critical to African Americans, I cannot ever recall asserting that I have “the” answer to a problem. This instance, however, …
Posted in Blog, Collaboration, Deep Thoughts, Economic Development, Entrepreneurs, Growth, Guest Posts, Innovation, Policy, Transformation, United States
Tagged African Americans, Collaboration, competitiveness, Entrepreneurs, innovation, policy, research, talent, unemployment, universities, valley of death, venture capital
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Last month, the Fourth Economy team organized a panel discussion at the annual summit of the University Economic Development Association (UEDA) in Indianapolis, IN. The panel topic “Partnerships for Place-making” brought together a cross-sector of university, private real estate …
Posted in Blog, Communities, Deep Thoughts, Economic Development, Elements of the Fourth Economy, Growth, Higher Education, Innovation, Leadership, Pioneer Thinking, Transformation
Tagged data, economic development, implementation, Indiana University, Indianapolis, LISC, neighborhood, partnership, Purdue University, research, UEDA, university
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Medium size metros such as Madison, Wisconsin; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Boulder, Colorado (each with total private employment between 75,000 and 250,000) continue to demonstrate a strong Bio Science employment base, attracting steady investment from this sector every year. These three metros …
Posted in Blog, Collaboration, Communities, Deep Thoughts, Economic Development, Growth, Higher Education, Investment, Research & Data, Research & Development, Science & Technology, Site Selection, United States
Tagged bio, boulder, colorado, life, lincoln, madison, nebraska, research, science, talent, wisconsin, workforce
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Utah made headlines by generating more startups in 2009 than MIT on ¼ of their budget. Interest and activity in university spinoffs continues to grow. A number of new initiatives have launched recently to promote the commercialization of university technology …
Posted in Blog, Deep Thoughts, Economic Development, Entrepreneurs, Growth, Higher Education, Innovation, Investment, Public-Private Partnership, Research & Data, Research & Development, Transformation, United States
Tagged Auburn Business Incubator, Center forRecearch Commercialization, CMU, development, Entrepreneurs, Greenlighting Startups, MIT, Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund, research, startup, Texas, university, Utah
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A client recently asked us a basic question – “If we want to attract and grow high-pay high-growth associated with technology related sectors, what do we need to know?” In response, our team gathered a sample of incentive programs and strategies that some states have employed to attract higher value, technology-based research and development sectors while also hoping to accelerate new company formation. While not a comprehensive search to say the least, this scan does provide some program themes of what has been put in place over the past few years to grow higher growth, higher wage sectors.
Posted in Blog, Economic Development, Growth, Science & Technology
Tagged capital, economic development, grants, innovation, investment, location, manufacturing, R&D, region, research, tax credits, TBED, technology, venture capital
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What are the consequences of declining public support for research? There are many positive aspects to Universities becoming more engaged with industry and with economic development efforts, but we have to make sure that good science is not compromised. A …
