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May 2024

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Cover Story

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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Features

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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).

Investment Reports

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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