Slicing and Dicing the Academy Oxford University is No. 1 in the world for the ninth consecutive year. Photo by Chinyup Wong: Getty Images Earlier this month at Times Higher Education’s World Academic Summit in Manchester, UK, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 were unveiled. A total of […]
WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close Attendees from Japan and Hong Kong share a jubilant moment at WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, France. Photo courtesy of WorldSkills How do you get 100,000 visitors to your city because of vocational education? Put your city in France, for starters. […]
The Geography of Genius The Johnson Museum sits atop East Hill on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, one of several institutions frequently associated with MacArthur grant recipients from New York. 2019 photo by Jason Koski (UREL) © Cornell University This week’s announcement of 22 new MacArthur Fellows brings […]
NMTCs Bring New Fuel for Growth to Low-Income Urban and Rural Areas Rodgers Wade Manufacturing of Paris, Texas (whose replica Eiffel Tower is pictured here), is one of hundreds of manufacturers whose expansions have benefited from NMTC financing. Photo: Getty Images Last week $5 billion in New Markets Tax Credits […]
Tech Rules the Roost Among Inc. 5000 Industry Categories But construction, logistics and manufacturing companies are well represented too. Rancho Cordova, California, part of Greater Sacramento, is home to a new headquarters and forthcoming business accelerator from consulting firm Clutch, the No. 1 firm by growth rate in this year’s […]
Virginia Tops Inc. 5000 Firms Per Capita List The Big Apple tops the overall metro region and city rankings, while Sheridan, Wyoming, and Lawrenceville, Georgia, bring in per-capita metro and city honors. Brooklyn is one borough helping Metro New York to No. 1 among all U.S. metros by number of […]
If outdoor recreation opportunities are on your company’s or family’s location matrix, new data released by the National Park Service this week is worth visiting.
As Major League Baseball’s regular season winds down like a pitch clock and pennant races wind up like a pitcher, sports team owners, communities and entire states keep taking their best swings at new stadium proposals and deals.
Since January 2015, Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database has qualified 58 major data center investments in the Europe’s “FLAP-D” markets: Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin.
A tariff almost went into effect today that would penalize U.S. ports at the same time it penalizes Chinese makers of ship-to-shore cranes. That’s because no domestic manufacturer yet exists.