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Solutions for China yield Mich. jobs

Great Cities Speakers Series Presents Doug Farr Discussing “Sustainable Urbanism”

Dallas-Fort Worth stepping up medical technology firms

Those at the Collaborative Innovation Summit hear stories of finding new directions

Purdue TAP Launches Green and Health Workforce Programs

‘Open Wide…’

Regionalism: economic development through collaboration, not competition

A group of young professionals from Lexington visited Columbus recently to gain some insights on downtown development.

Tips from Columbus

From Jim Cossler:

The origins of the Youngstown Business Incubator’s latest portfolio company, Accupoint Software, were in an ISO9000/QS9000 certified manufacturing firm’s inability to find technology that would allow it to efficiently manage the many critical components of their quality control program.

So they did what any other red-blooded U.S. manufacturer does when faced with similar frustration.

They designed and wrote their own software solution.

And it worked so well, Accupoint Software was spun off to offer the OpLink 6.0 product to other companies across the country.

To learn more about YBI’s newest software offering, visit www.accupointsoftware.com.

Rust Belt, smokestack code jockeys.

Now that is what we call Advanced Manufacturing!

Hung out at the East Cleveland Library today. A gem.

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Although Michigan borders four Great Lakes and has the most offshore wind potential, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, is likely to beat it to the punch with a proposed wind farm in Lake Erie several miles from Cleveland.

Last week a task force chaired by the Cuyahoga County prosecutor released an installment in an ongoing $1 million feasibility study giving the project a green light on geologic and wind-potential grounds. If the study continues to yield positive findings, construction of two to 10 wind turbines and a research station could start in about two years.

Studies Lift Hopes for Great Lakes Wind Turbine Farms

Michigan Report: Michigan’s Offshore Wind Potential

also

Michigan Great Lakes Offshore Wind: Permitting Dry Run (May 2008)

and

Cuyahoga Wind Energy Task Force

Arts & Business Philadelphia

Carbon Free Prosperity 2025

Keystone Innovation Zone gives tech firms a lift

Adding capacity in a mature, slow growth market has consequences…

The SEA estimates that convention center expenses will outstrip revenues by $3.8 million next year, in part because of charging below market rents to attract conventions and out-of-town tourists. The SEA is getting $1.7 million a year from state slots revenue to help cover the deficit, but Ms. Conturo has said that won’t be enough to eliminate it.

Convention center looking for cuts as deficit looms

Forecast: Business travel is decreasing…increased use of teleconferencing and tighter budgets. Read more.

Can Entrepreneurs Rescue the U.S. Economy?

Americans Believe Entrepreneurs Will Revive Economy, According to Kauffman Foundation Survey

Art Toronto Week

Summit will explore ways to get Detroit’s creative community on the map Next stop: Cool City

Can Buffalo lead the way in solving nation’s vacant housing problem?

Mansfield could put empty homes to good use

Economic Gardening Helps Communities Grow Their Own Jobs

UN forecasts boom in ‘green jobs’

New tech classes train students for clean energy jobs

Plan for downtown hub could foster growth

Cleveland missed deadline to join fight on city residency laws

Losing this case will strike at some key neighborhoods in the city.