July 2, 2014
Hubs of Innovation
A vigorous, modern economic system requires a thriving marketplace.
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July 2, 2014
Does Your Area Support An ‘Innovation Ecosystem’?
Our conversation with Rick Weddle, president of the International Association of Science Parks, offers some guidance.
May 13, 2014
Enabling The American Dream
Economic development in the United States has historically meant job attraction, retention and expansion as the way to ensure sustainable prosperity for residents of a community.
May 1, 2014
Top Competitive States: Georgia’s On Investors’ Minds
Georgia has now unseated regulars North Carolina and Texas from first place in Site Selection’s key measures of state economic development success. That’s no easy feat.
May 1, 2014
Top Groups: Interior Decorating
Coming out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American Heartland embarked on an extreme makeover from 2010 through 2013.
April 30, 2014
The Global Best to Invest Report
Site Selection is pleased to present its sixth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2013.
March 25, 2014
Top Industries: Spheres of Influence
Analysis of all projects entered into Site Selection’s New Plant Database during the 2013 calendar year shows transportation is driving economies, especially in Asia.
March 3, 2014
Top Micropolitans: The Ladder Effect
The last exclusively domestic ladder manufacturer in the US helped Wooster, Ohio, claim a title it’s been chasing for a long time: Top Micropolitan Area in America.
March 3, 2014
Top Metropolitans: The Connected City
From digital startups to behemoths of industry, Chicago fosters corporate facility growth better than any other metro area in the U.S.
March 3, 2014
The Governors Cups: Double Take
Texas and Nebraska have won the 2013 Site Selection Governor’s Cup. This year marks the inauguration of a second Governor’s Cup, recognizing the state with the most qualifying new and expanded facilities per capita.
January 2, 2014
60 Years of Excellence
While other publications’ circulation shrinks, Site Selection continues to grow. Entering our seventh decade Site Selection’s global distribution has never been stronger, with new readers in all corners of the world.
November 25, 2013
Right Under Your Nose
A company’s facilities and the environment in which they exist can be a strong competitive advantage — or a persistent drag on profitability.
November 11, 2013
Making the Most of Incentives Opportunities
Public financial support for business is a common practice in most parts of the world as governments try to encourage corporate behavior that is beneficial to the economy and society at large.
November 4, 2013
SUNNY DAY IN GEORGIA
No longer a bridesmaid, Georgia claims the limelight in 2013 as the state with the best business climate, according to Site Selection’s annual ranking of states’ attractiveness to corporate facility investors.
November 1, 2013
What Do Foreign Companies Know That U.S. Companies Don’t?
Even after the November 2012 election results were known, non-US-based companies looked forward to investing capital in US facilities in 2013.
September 3, 2013
The 2013 Infrastructure Report
Our annual Infrastructure Report unveils insights and plans from all three NAFTA territories, along with updates on some of the major projects now under way around the world.
September 3, 2013
Passageways To Prosperity
DTZ in July released its Global Occupancy Costs Logistics 2013 report, not long after Prologis released its own close look at European logistics.
July 5, 2013
All Inclusive
Call it what you will - a science park, a research park, a technology park, or a technopole. Over the last half-century, these types of developments have become recognized globally for offering a variety of support services to knowledge-based companies and for making significant contributions to regional economies.
July 5, 2013
Contributions and Challenges
Picture this: In a research laboratory on a college campus near you, a researcher has a "Eureka" moment and arrives at a promising, perhaps even world-changing discovery in nanotechnology, biomedicine, renewable energy or the like. How does this promising innovation move quickly from discovery into the marketplace, where it can help create high-wage employment and economic prosperity? This is a problem worldwide, as economies struggle to regain momentum emerging from recession.
May 6, 2013
Gauging the Dream
One of the biggest challenges in economic development is determining what to hold economic development organizations (EDOs) and elected officials accountable for.
May 1, 2013
Two for Two
Texas is two-thirds of the way to sweeping Site Selection's big three annual state rankings.
May 1, 2013
REWRITING THE NORMS
Breaking the rules may not win many friends, but it sure has a way of influencing people — especially when it comes to the world of economic development.
May 1, 2013
Global Best to Invest Report
Site Selection is pleased to present its fifth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2012.
April 12, 2013
Top Industries: Milestones
When nine out of the top 10 corporate facility projects in a sector are valued at more than US$1 billion, you've officially arrived as a force to be reckoned with.