RESEARCH & SCIENCE PARKS

Who is at the table steering the direction of a research or science park so that all stakeholders and the location itself benefit?

NEWS DIGEST

News briefs update you on Moderna in Kenya and the Philippines; Intel in Poland and Germany; Rusal in Russia; green hydrogen in Saudi Arabia; and a $3 billion data center in Malaysia.

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Intel celebrated the grand opening of a $3 billion expansion of its D1X facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2022.

Photo courtesy of Intel

“We project the semiconductor industry’s workforce will grow by nearly 115,000 jobs by 2030, from approximately 345,000 jobs today to approximately 460,000 jobs by the end of the decade, representing 33% growth,” says a new report from the Semiconductor Industry Association and Oxford Economics. “Of these new jobs, we estimate roughly 67,000 — or 58% of projected new jobs (and 80% of projected new technical jobs) — risk going unfilled at current degree completion rates.”

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Photo courtesy of Lamborghini

Earlier this month 40 drivers took part in the 60th Anniversary Lamborghini Esperienza Giro, a three-day, 626-mile driving event in Colorado that took the participants from Aspen through Paonia, Montrose and Ouray to Telluride.