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Silver and Gold

With 160 years of acquired expertise in precious metals, glass and specialty light sources, it’s only natural that Germany’s Heraeus Group would pair that most special of light sources — the sun — with the world’s need for that most precious of resources: power. And all it takes to bond the two is a little silver paste.

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Energy Report

Sunlight Fuels Power Surge

From Tempe to Tucson, solar power investments are transforming the energy landscape of Arizona.

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Area Spotlights

Coastline View

Projects up and down the seaboard help companies look outward and inward all at once.

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Energy Report

Where to Fill ‘Er Up

Where’s a biodiesel pump when you really need one? And what good’s an electric vehicle if you can’t find a place to plug in?

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Area Spotlights

Back to School

Business builders find the knowledge capital they need in college towns in the Southwest. Across New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona, entrepreneurs are tapping into this base of knowledge capital to propel their companies into rapid growth.

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Features

Drawing a Crowd

Each November in Dusseldorf, Germany, more than 135,000 visitors from more than 100 countries attend Medica, the world’s largest gathering for the medical industry. That sea of participants includes an array of state agencies from the U.S. seeking new business for existing companies and recruiting investment from firms based around the globe.

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Area Spotlights

“We Will Live By This”

Tennessee: “We Will Live By This”

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Area Spotlights

A Surplus of Riches

Montana ended the last fiscal year on June 30 with more than $453 million in surplus funds, the second highest amount in state government history.

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Features

Foreign Pipeline

Honda likes Ohio. Since November 2010, the company has announced investments totaling more than US$500 million in operations at its two auto plants and two powertrain plants in the state. Ron Lietzke, a spokesman for Honda in the U.S., says the investment is about strengthening the companies operations in Ohio and implementing new technologies.

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Online Insider

Ready to Roll

by Adam Bruns

The onset of the holiday season in mid-November brings two treats for the gourmand: the arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau and the harvest of clementine oranges. But only one of those fits in a stocking.

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Departments

Location Branding: How to Measure A Nation’s Image

NASA’s space program contributed to countless inventions, including the lithium battery, the artificial heart pump and even the cordless vacuum. It also helped to demonstrate America’s technological prowess to the world — an element that contributes in building the U.S.

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Life Sciences

Essence of Success

The stricter regulatory climate governing suppliers of dietary supplements has been a boon for Vitality Works, a liquid herbal extracts company based in Albuquerque, N.M.

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Life Sciences

The Shift Is On

Puerto Rico’s recently changed tax scheme is just one of many topics under the microscope after an election that has produced a new governor and a groundbreaking call for a status upgrade.

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Life Sciences

Serving Those Who Served

The largest integrated health care system in the United States is in the midst of the biggest infrastructure improvement program it’s seen since the end of World War II.

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Investment Profile

The Headquarters City

by Ron Starner

From financial services and insurance firms to retailers and restaurants, Columbus, Ohio, provides a safe haven for corporate management. Jeff Lyttle, region executive for JP Morgan Chase, says the global financial services firm has found the business climate it prefers in Columbus.

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Departments

Red Hot Locations Report: Seminar Puts a Finer Point on Marketing and Communications for Investment Promotion Agencies

How can investment promotion agencies differentiate themselves from their competitors? What tools can they use — should they use — to achieve this goal? What are considered best practices today in communicating to potential investors an area’s strategic value? These were among the topics covered in a September Red Hot Locations event in London, the FDI International Marketing & Communications Seminar.

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International Update

Myanmar’s New Foreign Investment Law: Look Before You Leap

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is one of Asia’s final frontier markets and investment destinations.

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International Update

Volkswagen in Brazil: Power to the People

The Volkswagen Group is expanding its ecological and social commitment in Brazil as its growth trajectory there gains altitude. “The Brazilian automobile market has significant growth potential.

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International Update

Investors Weigh Scottish Independence Implications

In 2014, voters will be asked whether the region should remain part of the United Kingdom or go it alone.

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Investment Profile

Tempting Thailand

by Adam Jones-Kelley

Fifteen years after the Thai government shrewdly relaxed monetary policy and allowed its currency, the baht, to drop against the dollar, corporations investing in Thailand are reaping the benefits, accessing a low-cost and educated work force at the crossroads of Asia.

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Investment Profile

The Sweet Spot for Global Trade

International intermodal logistics center offers promise of ‘game-changing’ industry for Florida’s Heartland. If business leaders and economic developers in Florida’s Heartland have their way, the region will also become known as the sweet spot for global logistics, manufacturing and international trade.

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Investment Profile

Exceeding Expectations

Companies seeking a high-tech manufacturing location in Germany can drastically shorten their search now that First Solar’s site is becoming available in Frankfurt (Oder), on the Polish border.

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Investment Profile

Follow the Leader

Malaysia has long been a haven for high-tech companies, with several maintaining operations there for decades. They are staying in Malaysia to take advantage of the country’s forward-thinking approach to keeping these companies from relocating elsewhere in the region.

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Features

The Thrill of Victory

Airbus adds Mobile, Ala., to its global network of passenger aircraft assembly plants, adding velocity to the northern Gulf Coast’s aerospace sector. On July 2, 2012 Airbus announced that the Brookley Aeroplex on Mobile Bay would be the site of the European aerospace giant’s newest final assembly plant — and its first in the United States — for production of the A320 family of passenger aircraft.

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