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July 11, 2013

E&E Sector Hears a Higher Calling

For four decades, the electrical and electronics (E&E) sector has been Malaysia's industrial bread and butter - a foundational sector that has only grown in importance as this Southeast Asian nation marches toward its goal of becoming a high-income economy by 2020. Along the way, Malaysia's government has cultivated the sector in such a way that it keeps pace with investing companies' higher-value E&E activities, including R&D and integrated circuit design and development, keeping them in Malaysia, as most of the 24 member companies of the Malaysian American Electronics Industry (MAEI) association can attest.

July 11, 2013

Will Advanced Manufacturing Keep Advancing?

Chances are, any manufacturing still alive today is "advanced" by definition. Competition and complexity - both driven by big data - continue to threaten and cajole industry in equal measure. And certain industries, companies and territories are responding better than others.

July 5, 2013

Big Apple and Beyond

Earlier this month CBRE Group, Inc. Global Research and Consulting issued an insightful report on biotech research space in New York City, and the need for it to catch up to the Big Apple’s boom in biotech activity.

July 5, 2013

The Primate Question

The National Institutes of Health made news this week when it announced it plans to substantially reduce the use of chimpanzees in NIH-funded biomedical research and designate for retirement most of the chimpanzees it currently owns or supports.

July 5, 2013

Now, Rochester

Talk to enough corporate real estate and facility executives around the world and you'll be astonished at how often big projects and decisions hinge on the unglamorous subject of parking.

July 5, 2013

It’s Only Natural

Yes, it's about green buildings. But it's also about how close they are to your house.

July 5, 2013

All Inclusive

Call it what you will - a science park, a research park, a technology park, or a technopole. Over the last half-century, these types of developments have become recognized globally for offering a variety of support services to knowledge-based companies and for making significant contributions to regional economies.

July 5, 2013

Contributions and Challenges

Picture this: In a research laboratory on a college campus near you, a researcher has a "Eureka" moment and arrives at a promising, perhaps even world-changing discovery in nanotechnology, biomedicine, renewable energy or the like. How does this promising innovation move quickly from discovery into the marketplace, where it can help create high-wage employment and economic prosperity? This is a problem worldwide, as economies struggle to regain momentum emerging from recession.

June 27, 2013

What’s In a Name?

There's no better time than the Fourth of July to shine a spotlight on Independence.

June 24, 2013

Valued Outlook

Business activity in New England in many cases is the equivalent of "musical states" or "musical cities." That is, while there is a healthy amount of new business and business expansion activity in the region, a lot of what is taking place is business consolidation and/or moving existing businesses from state to state or city to city.

June 24, 2013

Less Uncertainty Now, Stronger Growth Coming

The following is excerpted with permission from Dr. George Hammond's March 2013 report in Arizona's Economy, a publication of the Economic and Business Research Center (EBR) at the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. Dr. Hammond is Associate Director of EBR and Eller Research Professor.

June 17, 2013

FDI Wave Hits Gulf Coast

Christopher Prentice represents exactly the kind of company that increasingly is finding a home along U.S. Gulf Coast — high-tech, international and rapidly growing.

June 13, 2013

Double Harvest

So said Don Pottinger, CEO of Northern Plains Nitrogen (NPN) in announcing in May the choice of Grand Forks, N.D., in the famously fertile Red River Valley, as the location for a new $1.5-billion fertilizer plant that will employ 135.

June 12, 2013

A Spotlight on Site Selection Strategy

Site Selection magazine sat down with Atento CEO Alejandro Reynal to learn about the history of the company's massive international expansion of the last two decades as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telefonica, one of the world’s largest Telecom conglomerates, and what the future holds after the recent acquisition from Bain Capital in late December 2012.

June 12, 2013

‘Foreign Investors Should Talk to Me’

Former Guatemalan President (1996-2000) and current Guatemala City Mayor Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen addressed a Guatemala Investment Summit on May 30th to encourage investors to consider seriously his metropolitan area the next time they are seeking a location for BPO, manufacturing or other facilities.

June 12, 2013

Bahrain? Bank on It

Bahrain and banking used to go together. That is not so much the case now. The "bank king" of the Gulf has been dethroned. Before the global financial crisis and the Arab Spring, Bahrain was the banking and finance centre for the Gulf and the wider Middle East. The United Arab Emirates has now become the go-to location for many activities in this sector.

June 10, 2013

My Hometown

If you're not familiar with Chambersburg, New Castle or Sayre, Pa., or have somehow missed the turns for Indiana, Sunbury, East Stroudsburg or Meadville, you might need to readjust your navigation settings.

June 10, 2013

Mega-Region Momentum

Since January 2012 the Kentucky Golden Triangle of Louisville, Lexington and Northern Kentucky has welcomed 120 corporate facility projects to the three metro areas. The triangle is neither equilateral nor Pythagorean, but it might be isosceles: Greater Lexington and Northern Kentucky tally 30 projects each, while Greater Louisville tallies 60. But each side has its points, so to speak. And each gains strength from the other communities in its ambit.

June 10, 2013

Plowing the Fast Lane

Every time a new Kubota compact tractor speeds off the assembly line in Jefferson, Ga., it’s a reminder of just how multinational commerce has become in the Peach State.

June 5, 2013

Unfinished Business

Elected four times to serve as governor from 1983 to 1999, Branstad left office 14 years ago as Iowa's longest-serving chief executive.

June 5, 2013

Networking

Fisker Automotive is in bankruptcy. Coda's story has reached its own bankruptcy coda. And Better Place's vision for an electric car network has gone to a better place.

June 5, 2013

New Canvas

A search of Halliburton's 2,100 current job openings shows a bit over 1 percent of them (29) are in Colorado. Sixteen of those are in the company's Brighton district, where Halliburton this spring has brought online the world's largest frac sand terminal at Great Western Industrial Park in Windsor.

June 4, 2013

Interior Reaches Out

Companies involved in all aspects of traditional or renewable energy development are seeing a lot of action from the US Dept. of the Interior since former REI President and CEO Sally Jewell was sworn in as its new Secretary in April.

June 4, 2013

Risk Management

Companies like eBay, Adobe, IM Flash and FireEye are building their facilities in the Beehive State because that's where their honey is — a strong supply of skilled workers, a business climate that encourages and rewards high-tech enterprise growth and the technical infrastructure statewide that is critical to their businesses.