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South Carolina: Creating Opportunity in Advanced Manufacturing

South Carolina: Creating Opportunity in Advanced Manufacturing

Opportunities—there’s no better place for advanced manufacturing companies to find them than South Carolina. Whether it’s opportunity for growth, for ...

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 ...

U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Help U.S. Based Manufacturers Stay in Business

U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Help U.S. Based Manufacturers Stay in Business

The use of the Foreign-Trade Zones program by U.S.-based manufacturers of computer-related peripheral products provides an instructive example of how ...

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...

Plastics Play an Indispensable Role

Plastics Play an Indispensable Role

The U.S. plastics industry employs 1.4 million workers and provides more than $310 billion in annual shipments, and the plastics processing sector alo...

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,...

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 ...

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...