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Ed Morrison · The manufacturing skills gap: The view from Minnesota
October 24th, 2011
Half of Minnesota’s manufacturers indicate that they cannot find qualified workers to fill available job openings. The biggest gaps are in skilled production occupations. Skill shortages are not as severe in customer service and management and administration.
Ed Morrison · Factors underlying the success of high performing incubators
October 24th, 2011
Synergy is the key to incubator success. No one factor accounts for high performance. Rather, it’s the mixture of incubator practices and policies that matters. Further, high performing incubators focus on outcomes; they collect the data needed to assess returns.
This information comes from a new report released by The US Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration.
This information comes from a new report released by The US Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration.
Ed Morrison · The importance of libraries
October 24th, 2011
Ed Morrison · Surveying the landscape for entrepreneurs in Portland OR
October 24th, 2011
The Portland Development Commission, one of the more innovative public economic development entities in the country, has released three reports on entrepreneurship in the Portland economy. They give you a good view of the landscape for entrepreneurial ventures. They also provide a good model for others to follow.
Ed Morrison · Technology, innovation, prosperity: Some thoughts from Brookings
October 23rd, 2011
Brookings has produced another paper on innovation and prosperity. This paper explores the role technology plays in stimulating innovation. The report goes on to recommend some key federal policies to stimulate higher levels of innovation.
Here is the executive summary.
Ed Morrison · Economic development in NEO: A view from the street-level
October 22nd, 2011
From Rustwire.com:
Living in Cleveland I find myself jealous of Youngstown. Youngstown’s Business Incubator is really doing the heavy lifting of economic development: they nurture start-ups in the pre-revenues stage.
If I was living in Youngstown, I could attend courses, like those offered by my friend Tyler Clark, for free to learn about ecommerce. I think I could also use their office space there from time to time. I was told they once operated a coworking space.
That is the kind of thing that would help me as a small-business owner and self-employed individual in this region. Instead it is really a struggle.
Chasing Smokestacks and Promoting Sprawl: Economic Development in Ohio
Ed Morrison · Gaining insights into the supply/demand dynamics of STEM
October 22nd, 2011
Anthony Carnevale at Georgetown’s Center for Education and the Workforce has produced an important report on STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math). The report looks behind the numbers to give us insights into the dynamics of STEM education and STEM careers.
Ed Morrison · New Jersey’s new strategic plan
October 22nd, 2011
New Jersey has released a new strategic plan. Given the current political climate in the state, the plan makes clear from the beginning htat it is not intended to be a “top-down” effort that adds to state bureaucracy or creates a new set of unfunded mandates for municipal governments.
You can read about the plan here.
Ed Morrison · Solar employment in the U.S. | 2011
October 22nd, 2011
The National Solar Foundation has released its 2011 census of solar jobs. There are about 100,000 solar jobs in the U.S. and the market is projected to grow about 24% in the next year. Almost half of solar firms expect to add jobs over the next year. More than half of the job growth will come in solar installation firms.
Ed Morrison · Insights into Internet trends
October 22nd, 2011
Mary Meeker, partner at Kleiner Perkins, provided a fascinating look at Internet trends last week during the annual Web 2.0 Summit last week. Among the facts:
- Social networks (70% of whom use Facebook) exceed the number of Internet users.
- In 3 years, China added more Internet users than the total number of Internet users in the U.S.
- The mobile Internet (smart phones) is in the midst of its explosion in market penetration: 3G growth year to year is 35%; almost 1 billion 3G subscribers worldwide.
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