Project Updates (Page 8)

Topic Overview Technology acceleration is defined as integrating technology into the products, processes, services and business models of existing companies to solve existing problems in the commercial marketplace or to help the private sector pursue opportunities that will result in growth. Technology acceleration is an ideal for economic development that incorporates the entire innovation continuum, […]

Small Business Finance Topic Overview Access to capital is a lifeblood for small businesses – it helps businesses expand, hire new workers, build a new factory, or buy a piece of new equipment. Small business financing is a structural problem. While small businesses employ nearly half of Americans, they have difficulty accessing private capital markets. […]

Topic Overview Foreign direct investment (FDI) represents the recruitment of a new company from outside the U.S., and it has long been an important policy priority for states. FDI is important for economic growth and well-being because it provides jobs, fuels innovation, and creates long term economic relationships between the U.S. and its trading partners. […]

Topic Overview Manufacturing is a critical priority for almost every state because it serves as the foundation for the economy and provides a broad array of opportunities for American workers to find family-sustaining jobs. Manufacturing contributes to the economy in other important ways as well: Jobs: The U.S. manufacturing sector today employs 12 million Americans. […]

John Moratta and Lindsay Johnson traveled to Rochester, New York to conduct a site visit, in conjunction with NIST-MEP, in preparation for an outcomes report on the impacts of the Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge (AMJIAC).

The Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), one of three associations that the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) manages, today released the State of State Business Incentives 2015 report which reflects the present status of the more than 1,900 state business incentives in operation around the U.S. The report is based a recent review that C2ER performed for its State […]

Martin Romitti served as a panelist for the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) webinar on data-driven performance: Transforming Data into Intelligence for Workforce Development Program Success.

Ron Kelly’s comments on community wealth-building were cited in The Democracy Collaborative’s latest report on community economic development entitled, Cities Building Community Wealth.

Ron Kelly attended the National Association of State Workforce Agencies Joint Committee Meeting: Employment and Training, Labor Market Information, and Technology Committees in San Antonio, Texas.

The Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) published its third quarter Cost of Living Index (COLI) report for 2015 in late October.