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Economic development (ED) websites comprise an indispensable tool for the corporate site selector as well as the most cost-effective marketing medium ...

With international financial markets more unpredictable than the forecast of winter's first snow, businesses around the globe are searching for ways t...

Strategy is important when promoting growth – whether in farming or economic development. Just as soybean farmers rely upon the right seed, weather, a...

In today's fast-paced, global-knowledge economy,a state must differentiate itself and cultivate and sustain specialized areas of expertise where it ca...

Today’s business climate offers the agriculture and food processing industries great opportunities and great challenges. Opportunities for new product...

Massachusetts was the birthplace not only of the American Revolution, but also the cradle of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The Commo...

It’s been almost a century since new chemical methods led to a boom in the innovative plastic polymers that revolutionized the plastics industry. Toda...

The polymer industry, commonly thought to be the same as the plastics industry, significantly deviates from the Pareto principle. This principle holds...

When an industry as central to the U.S. economy as plastics stages a once-every-three-years trade show, manufacturing and trade development profession...

North Carolina has undergone a major economic transformation in the past decade – one that is being studied and copied by states across the nation. Fr...