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Missouri Means Business

Missouri Means Business

Missouri’s sultry summer weather is not the only thing that is hot in the heartland. The state’s new and improved, open-for-business approach is also ...

Tennessee: Serving Up Southern Hospitality Industrial-Style

Tennessee: Serving Up Southern Hospitality Industrial-Style

Taking a look inside Tennessee is like opening a box of chocolates. There’s an assortment and variety that can only be discovered when one takes a bit...

Maryland

Maryland

The research and development team at Protiveris, Inc., a small Maryland-based biotechnology company, had reached an impasse. In trying to optimize a c...

Pennsylvania: Home of the “Biosciences Continuum”

Pennsylvania: Home of the “Biosciences Continuum”

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is home to the entire continuum of the biosciences— world-class research; emerging biotechnology, medical device and ...

California - Burnishing the Golden State

California - Burnishing the Golden State

California has an irresistible energy. It’s the kind of energy and spirit that flows from a strong sense of curiosity and determination, from an irrep...

Canadian Biotech Clusters

Canadian Biotech Clusters

If there is one thing I have learned from my days in the economic development world, it is that Canada truly is well known for its generous R&D tax cr...

New Jersey: Where Ideas and Initiative Spell Success

New Jersey: Where Ideas and Initiative Spell Success

From Thomas Edison to Albert Einstein, New Jersey has long been home to great thinkers who do great things. That’s no less true today, and New Jersey’...

Arkansas: On the Move

Arkansas: On the Move

Toyota took a hard look at a super site in eastern Arkansas when deciding where to locate its new truck plant. The Tundra went to Texas, but Arkansas ...

Kansas? Yes Indeed!

Kansas? Yes Indeed!

In fact, aircraft design and production is a major part of the Kansas economy. More than sixty percent of the general aviation aircraft produced in th...

Louisiana Driven for More Success

Louisiana Driven for More Success

When General Motors looked throughout its manufacturing system to find the place for the new HUMMER H3, it found the automotive cluster in Shreveport ...