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Industrial Production Rises for Third Straight Month

Industrial Production Rises for Third Straight Month

As the Federal Reserve recently reported that overall industrial production edged up 0.1 percent in July after a much faster 0.8 percent rise in June,...

Ohio: Ohio Manufacturers Reap the Benefits of ISO Certification

Ohio: Ohio Manufacturers Reap the Benefits of ISO Certification

In the always-evolving world of manufacturing, it’s important to stay ahead of the competition. New and innovative products are being discovered and p...

Location Decisions of BioConvergence Industries

Location Decisions of BioConvergence Industries

With so much activity surrounding biosciences, health care, and bio-related information technologies, how will private sector companies choose their n...

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...

High-Tech Industry Slowly Turns the Corner

High-Tech Industry Slowly Turns the Corner

A new study by the AeA, the nation's largest high-tech trade association, shows that the U.S. tech industry shed 25,000 jobs in 2004, dropping to 5.6 ...

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...

The Convergence of Health Care, Biotech, and Technology - and the Location Decisions...

The Convergence of Health Care, Biotech, and Technology - and the Location Decisions Behind Them

The continued integration of bio- and information-technologies into the health care industry will result in a significant shift in how new bio-based s...

State-by-State Study on the Bioscience Industry

State-by-State Study on the Bioscience Industry

Employment and other economic activity in the biosciences has grown dramatically in the past three years, and states working to attract bioscience com...

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 ...