Speedbumps Here, Cruise Control There
Companies and locations adjust to a new industry landscape.
May 2024
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Global Best To Invest 2024
The 16th annual Global Best to Invest rankings showcase the top countries and metro areas in terms of their outlook for corporate investment.
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Federal Pause on New LNG Export Terminals Doesn’t Mean Pause of Exports or Expansions Already Underway
The federal government early this year hit “pause” on further LNG export terminals in order to reconsider some aspects of the environmental review process. But that doesn’t mean the LNG exports that began in February 2016 have paused. That very same government’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a State of the Markets report in March […]
A Global Test to Explore the Benefits of Hemp
Over the course of one year, researchers in Italy’s Sicilian region aim to revolutionize the ways in which industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) can provide a sustainable solution to materials commonly used across global industries. Although botanically related to another cannabis sativa species known as marijuana, hemp holds less than 0.3% of the psychoactive component […]
Biotech Startups Get a LIFT in North Dakota
Sometimes health tech firms need a helping hand. In Fargo, they find one.
An Oklahoma Story
Native tribes contribute more than $15 billion.
Top Deals of 2023
Like flickering lights, intermittent doubts put some folks on edge about the viability of the EV revolution. Judged by the capital investment, job creation, turning dirt and rising steel at projects around the world, however, the current is strong and steady. Continuing a trend from the year before, investments in the industry dominate this year’s […]
The 2024 Mac Conway Awards for Excellence in Economic Development
The economic development organizations profiled in the following pages are being recognized for contributing significantly to their locations’ investment attraction and job creation success
Investment Profiles
Ready Upon Arrival
Diligent site development preparations bear fruitful project investment results throughout Mississippi.
Lab to Fab
Portugal’s innovation mindset cultivates a growing sweet spot for the global semiconductor industry.
Consumers Energy
Michigan is Putting Chips On the Table
International
Eight States and More to Come
UK Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch welcomed Texas Governor Greg Abbott to London in March to sign a trade pact that “aims to help make it quicker, easier, and cheaper for UK and Texas firms to do business by tackling trade barriers, growing investment and driving commerce between the UK and Texas.” The UK […]
How China Is Fast-Tracking Its Next Logistics and Commercial Hub
To say my second visit to the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone (ZAEZ) in China’s Henan Province this past March was eye-opening would be a massive understatement. I’m still getting my head around the development that has taken place since I was there several years ago. That first trip was hampered by a thick mixture of […]
Departments
IAMC Insider: Two Halves Make a Whole
Iwork for a wonderful company. One of the reasons I think of PepsiCo that way is the way it empowers women — you know, those people who make up half the world’s population. It’s why the company signed the White House Equal Pay Pledge in 2016. More recently, during Women’s History Month this spring, the […]
Editor’s View: Silver Linings Playbook Revisited
To believe things are going to work out, or not to believe. That is the question. You’ll have to forgive this former poetry and theater major. Writing this on Shakespeare’s 460th birthday, I can’t help but ask, “Is it indeed nobler ‘to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against […]
Area Spotlights
Fueling the Future of Colorado’s Life Sciences Sector
A group of 22 partners representing Colorado’s life sciences ecosystem have banded together to fund a new national economic development campaign to bolster Colorado into “America’s epicenter for life sciences innovation.” Launched in February, the Colorado Hub for Healthcare Impact comprises entities from each level of the state’s life sciences network The campaign highlights six […]
Ohio Claims the Top Two Emerging Hubs for Biotech Research
CBRE’s U.S. Life Sciences Research Talent 2023 report named not one but two Ohio cities among the top emerging hubs for researchers. Out of the nine clusters ranked, Columbus and Cincinnati, No.1 and No.2, were the only cities included from the same state. Both represent robust research institution networks that have received significant support through […]
A Texas Economic Artery’s Course Of Treatment
Interstate 35 runs from Duluth, Minnesota, to Laredo, Texas, making it a key north-south artery through the central United States for moving imports and exports to and from Canada and Mexico. Besides the state capitals of St. Paul, Des Moines, Oklahoma City and Austin, I-35 links Kansas City, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio and the […]
Seeing the Whole Court
Two growing companies from Cedar Rapids shoot to national prominence by knowing how to dish off value for others.
Got Minerals?
Miners head beneath Utah’s natural wonders to strike gold (among other critical minerals).
How Factories Are Changing in Kentucky
Hint: They’re getting cleaner, greener and bigger.
Sino-Latin Connections Grow
Nearshoring to the Americas to depend less on China? Better get there before the Chinese firms do.
Preliminary CHIPS Deals Would Boost Intel, TSMC Plans for Arizona
Aviation and space industry investment is skyrocketing.
How LNG Energized the South’s Industrial Base
Gulf Coast ports usher in an era of resiliency and record-setting deals.
How Florida Won the Race for Talent
An electrical engineer builds the case for the Sunshine State.
Québec Makes an EV Play
Northvolt investment affirms aggressive battery strategy.
Big Dreams Take Shape
A federally funded initiative seeks to re-imagine the Great Lakes.
Investment Reports
Costa Rica: The Evolution of an Economy
The Evolution of an Economy
Intelligence Reports
Spoiler Alert: Quad Cities No Longer Best Kept Secret
In management or editorial speak, “QC” stands for quality control, that endless process of getting things right as close to 100% of the time as possible. In the center of the United States, QC stands for “Quad Cities,” known for a manufacturing heritage that likes to do things right the first time. Forty years ago […]
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Shovel Ready Sites: Getting Ready for Prime Time
What good is a prepared and certified industrial site if electrical power can’t get to it?