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Louisiana - A State of Opportunity

Louisiana - A State of Opportunity

Louisiana’s economic forecast is bright, despite the effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.   With more than 200,000 homes destroyed in the G...

Ohio's Manufacturing Heritage

Ohio's Manufacturing Heritage

Ohio’s new Governor Ted Strickland is building on the state’s manufacturing heritage to retain and recruit the industries of the future – specifically...

Flying High in Arkansas

Flying High in Arkansas

Arkansas’ No. 1 export is aircraft and spacecraft. Approximately 10,000 Arkansans work in aerospace occupations such as aircraft parts and components...

Georgia - Smoothing the Ride to Success

Georgia - Smoothing the Ride to Success

Aviation pioneer Ben Epps flew the first powered airplane in Georgia in 1907. Two years later, Ford Motor Company began building automobiles in the st...

Bioscience and Virginia - A Perfect Match

Bioscience and Virginia - A Perfect Match

Space to grow, a pool of talented professionals and a business-friendly, low-cost environment that stimulates growth are necessary ingredients for the...

Wisconsin: The Core of Biotech Discovery

Wisconsin: The Core of Biotech Discovery

From the development of the Babcock Milk Test in the late 19th century to the isolation of human embryonic stem cells in the late 20th century, the St...

Missouri - International Biotechnology Center

Missouri - International Biotechnology Center

Missouri is on the cutting edge of advancements in the bio, bio-technology and agricultural economic sectors. Led by Gov. Matt Blunt, the state has ta...

Top Canadian Biotech Clusters Focus on Life Sciences and the Agro-biotechnologies

Top Canadian Biotech Clusters Focus on Life Sciences and the Agro-biotechnologies

Last year, I prepared an article for Trade & Industry Development that painted a broad-brush picture of Canada’s current position in the biotech secto...

Kentucky Horsepower

Kentucky Horsepower

Kentucky ranks among the top one-third of states in the plastics industry. Most of that is in processing new and recycled plastics resins into interme...

Texas: National Leader with Global Acclaim

Texas: National Leader with Global Acclaim

With its low cost of doing business coupled with a tax burden that is 32 percent lower than the national average, ground-breaking economic development...