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November 30, 2011

Olympian Ideals

This autumn saw two projects spring into being that seek to turn the happy-future talk often bred by the Olympic Games into some tangible progress in the here and now.

November 30, 2011

Power Groves

On parcels known more for pecans and oranges, a Florida firm plans to raise huge crops of solar power.

November 30, 2011

Economic Developers Need A Seat at the Smart Grid Table

The Smart Grid is a transformation in the electric industry with great potential for corporate competitiveness and regional economic development, and economic developers have a key role in making it happen.

November 28, 2011

New Heights

Technology is pushing wind turbines higher and putting them into all sorts of new locations, including on top of skyscrapers, data centers and big-box retailers.

November 28, 2011

India’s New Auto Cluster

India’s western state of Gujarat has long been an industrial nexus, specializing in petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and textiles.

November 28, 2011

‘Potent Formula’

Pfizer and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) official broke ground on Nov. 21 for the new location of Pfizer's Cardiovascular, Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases (CVMED) and Neuroscience research units in Cambridge.

November 28, 2011

Long-Term Care

An energy study at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center, in Vancouver, Wash., may have a national impact on the future of hospital design.

November 28, 2011

Hub of Knowledge

Twenty years after German reunification, Berlin is Germany’s political capital, a cultural metropolis, an attractive business location and one of Europe’s leading centers for science and research.

November 21, 2011

Still Good Chemistry

Does the photograph on this page frighten or inspire? How a company or a country answers that question goes a long way toward explaining the maturing and increasingly integrated global role of China as a production, research, talent and market base.

November 21, 2011

Thinking Ahead

China’s plan to build thousands of hospitals and other healthcare facilities bodes well for the medical device sector. U.K.-based consultancy Epsicom Business Intelligence says the prospects for medical device spending in China are huge as the country’s healthcare reform plan unfolds over the next several years.

November 21, 2011

Back For More

Back For More: Space Coast leaders and aerospace workers give thanks for a boost from Boeing.

November 15, 2011

Cargo Evolution

John Carver, Jones Lang LaSalle's vice president for port, airport and global infrastructure, says there will be four East Coast ports ready to receive the mammoth post-panamax ships in 2014.

November 15, 2011

Reinventing Connecticut

It didn’t take long for the Bioscience Connecticut initiative to bear fruit.

November 9, 2011

SITE Visit: Don’t Fence Me In

Greater Columbus and the State of Ohio work to corral Bob Evans Farms’ headquarters in the Village of New Albany.

November 9, 2011

Let’s Talk

For those struggling to create jobs in their communities, it may pay to take up the art of real conversation with business leaders. By now, most economic developers have at least a cursory knowledge of a growing field within their profession called business retention and expansion, often referred to as “BR&E.” The concept or strategy behind BR&E is relatively simple: Concentrate your efforts on existing industry, as that will be where most newly created jobs and investment will occur.

November 9, 2011

Next-Gen Site Selection

A new generation of commercial transport changes the rules of where facilities supporting this bellwether industry are located. Airbus has opened a new, 650-employee facility in Broughton, Wales, where wings for the A350 XWB will be manufactured. Boeing has not yet determined where it will build its new 737 MAX airliner. Renton, Wash., has been home to 737 production for decades, but the aerospace giant is also considering other locations.

November 8, 2011

Reform School Showdown

Reform School Showdown: When it comes to corporate tax reform, Washington wonks differ on who needs to clean up their act.

November 2, 2011

FDI Sweepstakes

You load 16 tons and what do you get? A high-tech wind turbine gear box bound for Colorado.