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Area Spotlights

More Packers Are Heading to Green Bay

by Mark Arend

The Green Bay waterfront

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Wisconsin Paper mills gain new leases on life.

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Features

SMART MOVES

by Adam Bruns

Mercedes-Benz Vans’ URBANETIC concept, based on autonomous vehicles, seeks to remove “the separation between people moving and goods transportation” and improve urban life.

Photo courtesy of Daimler

Looking to position yourself near autonomous, smart and electrified vehicle R&D? It seems as if there’s an autonomous vehicle test bed around every corner.

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TrustBelt

Bourbon, Bats and Business: The Louisville You Don’t Know

by Ron Starner

With Louisville Forward serving as the official host sponsor, the city of 617,000 people on the banks of the Ohio River will welcome attendees of the fifth annual TrustBelt Forum on August 19-21, 2019.

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TrustBelt

Putting Drivers into Park: How Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Our World

by Ron Starner

“In the future, when we buy a car, it will be a much more emotionally exciting car. There will be no need to own a boring car.”

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TrustBelt

Ten Things I Learned at TrustBelt

by Ron Starner

A parade of distinguished speakers and panelists reinforced the notion that how we build our companies and our cities is changing as rapidly as the modes of transportation we use.

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Investment Profile

New Directions

by Adam Bruns

The sculpture “Inspiration 911,” created by the artist Gerry Judah, adorns the Porscheplatz corporate campus in Zuffenhausen in Greater Stuttgart, which one can now navigate using a new app — one small part of the e-mobility revolution. In recent years, Porsche has invested around €1 billion in facilities in Greater Stuttgart.

Photo courtesy of Porsche

The Federal State of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany — the birthplace of the automobile — is ready to disrupt its own industry.

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International Update

Where to Find the Green in Germany

by Adam Bruns

Financial services company Helaba Group’s tower in Frankfurt, certified LEED-Platinum in 2016, is among the structures making the German state of Hesse No. 1 in the nation for green buildings.

Photo courtesy of Helaba

Where will corporate occupiers find the greenest buildings once they land within Germany’s borders?

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Area Spotlights

Why Facebook Friended Nebraska

by Ron Starner

Omaha, Nebraska

Photo courtesy of Greater Omaha Chamber

An ‘incredibly complicated process’ led the world’s largest social media company to connect in Greater Omaha.

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Banking on Minnesota

by Ron Starner

From large firms to FinTech startups, the smart bet is on financial services talent in the North Star State.

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Tech+Talent is a Magical Combination

by Adam Bruns

Computing power and brain power deliver a powerful
one-two punch.

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FinTech’s Newest Place to Play – A Desert Sandbox

by Adam Bruns

Arizona is the first state in the nation to issue an open invitation to financial technology pioneers.

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Get Smart

by Ron Starner

What’s smart about connecting talent, innovation, technology, education and government? Everything.

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Why Businesses are Choosing Greater Phoenix

by Ron Starner

A pro-business climate, highly educated workforce and reasonable costs serve as magnets.

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Investment Profile

The Ocean State’s Enduring Location Ace

by Mark Arend

Providence skyline

Photo courtesy of Rhode Island Commerce Corporation

Rhode Island can punch above its weight — and win — thanks to business location assets like the Quonset Business Park.

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Features

Where to Establish an MRO Beachhead in the Asia-Pacific Region

There are resources available for those in the aerospace and MRO sectors looking to de-risk their touch-down in Thailand.

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How a local American Chamber of Commerce Aerospace Council paves the way.

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International Update

Transforming India @75

Photo: Getty Images

Driven by Demand, Demographics, Development (3Ds) – the world’s largest democracy is set to emerge as a global business and investment destination as it turns 75 by 2022.

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Innovation Engine

by Adam Bruns

From the Mayo Clinic to the medical device sector, Minnesotawrote the book on medical technology and bioscience.

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Startup Hotspot

by Gary Daughters

Venture capital? Check. Incubators? Check. Accelerators? Check. Learn why every box for entrepreneurship is checked in Minnesota.

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Energy Report

Where Do All the Batteries Go?

by Adam Bruns

Renault is working on an answer.

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Energy Report

Windows on a More Efficient World

by Adam Bruns

Three reports offer guideposts to more judicious energy use in buildings, transport and industry.

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Energy Report

Berlin and the Burgh

by Adam Bruns

Two Siemens investments on opposite sides of the Atlantic have energy and community redevelopment at their heart.

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Where Problem-Solvers Unite

by Ron Starner

It’s no accident that Minnesotans regularly produce life-changing inventions.

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Investment Profile

A Powerhouse of Progress

by Ron Starner

Photo of downtown Columbus courtesy of TourismOhio

How the capital region of Ohio put together a record-setting decade.

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Area Spotlights

Cashing in Their Chips

by Ron Starner

Micron broke ground in August on what one economic development leader calls “the most coveted type of project in the world.”

Photo courtesy of City of Manassas

How Micron chose Virginia for a $3-billion semiconductor project after a global search.

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