Economic Development

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kauffman.org
02/17/17 The 8th annual State of Entrepreneurship Address discussed the resurgence of entrepreneurship in the United States, but also that three …
The Business Journals
bizjournals.com
Durham moms build co-working, childcare space
wral.com - By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
As Tiffany Frye headed back to work after the birth of her child, she had a particular childcare arrangement in mind: A co-working space that offered …
Human Resources
The Best Job Candidates Don't Always Have College Degrees
The Atlantic - Bourree Lam
Many companies find that skills-based pre-employment tests are better predictors of success on the job. Last month, the U.K. office of the accounting firm Ernst & Young announced that, starting next year,
Trans-Pacific Partnership
Why Americans are so nostalgic about the manufacturing industry
theweek.com
The fate of American manufacturing is back in the headlines, thanks to the bipartisan slugfest going on over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the …
The $6.5 Billion, 20-Year Plan To Transform An American City
Fast Company - By Neal Ungerleider
Rochester, Minnesota, is home to the world-famous Mayo Clinic. Will an ambitious new project make it a global medical-tourism destination? One of the world’s best-known hospitals has a problem. The Mayo
The Robot Invasion
prospect.org - Rick Wartzman
The question that haunted the post-war industrial tech boom of the 1950s is rising again: Have we reached a stage at which technology is destroying …
American Made: The New Manufacturing Landscape : NPR
NPR
From Pocket Lining To Jeans, A Niche Means Survival In LA Fashion Toggle more options What Gets Made In LA Is Way More Than Movies Toggle more options Future U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Will Require More Than
Why innovation and start-ups are thriving in ‘flyover country’
The Washington Post
There are two prevailing perceptions about innovation and start-ups: first, they are all tech driven, and second, they originate from just a few regions — chief among them, Silicon Valley. I’ve seen firsthand
Fostering a Startup and Innovation Ecosystem
SlideShare - Techstars
We are on a mission to make the world a more innovative and prosperous place, one community at a time. We believe that entrepreneurs are critical to driving a strong global economy and a better world.
5 Key Themes Emerging From the 'New Science of Cities'
CityLab - Michael Mehaffy
In the most innovative incubators of urban research, the lessons of Jane Jacobs are more vital than ever. In the past few years, a remarkable body of scientific research has begun to shed new light on
A Skateboard To Bring Back Local Manufacturing In The South Is Made From . . . Bamboo?
fastcoexist.com - About the author Adele Peters is a staff writer at Fast Company who focuses on solutions to some of the world's largest problems, from climate change to homelessness. Previously, she worked with GOOD, BioLite, and the Sustainable Products and Solutions program at UC Berkeley. More
“You can end up making a pretty high-tech material in a pretty low-tech environment,” says Lance Rake, a design professor from the University of …
Chattanooga's Gig: how one city's super-fast internet is driving a tech boom
The Guardian - Dominic Rushe
Loveman’s department store on Market Street in Chattanooga closed its doors in 1993 after almost a century in business, another victim of a nationwide decline in downtowns that hollowed out so many US
Smaller Towns as Talent Magnets: The Chance to Make Things Work
The Atlantic - James Fallows
"The kind of people who might have gone to NASA in the 1960s, Wall Street in the 1980s, or Silicon Valley in the late 1990s are now, I think, more likely than ever to work in municipal government." So
The Rural Student Brain Gain
dailyyonder.com
The common wisdom is that rural America’s “best and brightest” want to leave home. New research shows these students are no more likely to want to …
We’re heading into a jobless future, no matter what the government does
The Washington Post
In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers revived a debate I’d had with futurist Ray Kurzweil in 2012 about the jobless future. He echoed the words of Peter Diamandis,