You’re kidding, right?
Many economic impact studies are very badly designed. “If you see multipliers in excess of 2.5, get very nervous.” (Sheppard)
Lemme see, which economic dev projects had those sorts of multipliers?
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A Cleveland+ move: Get visitors here and then gouge them on the way to their hotel.
Taxi costs to soar under new deals at Hopkins
For months, as the new taxi plan was formulated, airport director Ricky Smith repeatedly said he didn’t expect cab fares to increase.
A cynic would say we are witnessing the costs of political corruption.
Any defenders? Perhaps Positively Cleveland can explain what — on its surface — appears to be a real bonehead move. (Roche’s flat fee argument is a good one in a developing country, but we are probably past that….Hmmm, on second thought…)
Ricky Smith has another problem: Blown public credibility. You can fix the taxi fares by lowering them.
Rebuilding credibility is not so easy.
In my view, talking about merging the University of Akron and Cleveland State is a non-starter and a time sink.
Investing in centers of execellence at all our colleges and universities makes far more sense.
Northeast Ohio can look to North Dakota for inspiration. Since 2005, the state has been investing in centers of excellence in all its campuses. Here’s the latest.
Centers of Excellence recommends funding for Minot State center
Download a summary of investments
(By the way, North Dakota is home to a major research campus for Microsoft. Read more.)
Dubuque, IA is moving ahead with plans to become a center for component manufacturing for wind power.
Dubuque catching the wind: City is courting manufacturers of turbines and parts
After reading this editorial on Miami’s empowerment zone, I started wondering what has happened to Cleveland’s empowerment zone. (These types of initiatives have a potential to spin out of control.)
Anybody got any news?
What’s the opportunity for Northeast Ohio in smart fabrics and intelligent textiles (SFIT)?
Researchers in smart fabrics and intelligent textiles (SFIT) are working with the fashion industry to bring us color-changing or perfume-emitting jeans, wristwatches that work as digital wallets, and running shoes like the Nike +iPod that watch where you’re going (possibly allowing others to do the same). Powering these gizmos remains a key obstacle.
But industry watchers estimate that a $400 million market for SFIT is already in place and predict that smart fabrics could revitalize the U.S. and European textile industry.
Technology embraces fashion in ‘Hug shirt’
A special category of SFIT is the Intelligent Biomedical Clothing (IBC). Future developments of intelligent biomedical clothing will be based on the full integration of sensors/actuators, energy sources, processing and communication within the clothes.
David Moss, Mike De Aloia and others worked to try to alert the region to this opportunity.
Georgia a player in booming video game industry
(Halo 3 hit the stores last week and has hit $300 million in sales — $170 million in the first 24 hours. Read more.)
