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Time again, boys and girls, for our monthly recap of how our region is doing in pursuing Recovery Act dollars that impact our leading industry clusters. After today’s Department of Energy SBIR awards, we’re at more than 556 projects totaling $537,779,186.56 in investment. C...
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A few weeks ago, Bill liveblogged from the second meeting of the International Regions Benchmarking Consortium that took place in Barcelona...
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It feels sometimes like we’ve been talking about a “second stimulus package” pretty much as soon as the first one passed (almost exactly nine months ago!). Cer...
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OK, maybe that’s not the best slogan for a new STEM initiative marketing campaign. I’ll leave that up to the experts. But a marketing campaign is exactly what the Obama Administration is talking about with its new Educate to Innovate campaign. An...
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There’s been a lot of buzz about the region’s growing global health industry over the last two years, and for good reason: with the largest philanthropic investor in this industry in the world (Gates Foundation) here in our backyard, combined with leading research institutions in global health (Un...
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At least, according to the New York Times.
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In the go-go days of the mid-2000’s, Richard Florida was king, and the creative economy was going to lead us to cafe-cultured prosperity. ...
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About a year ago, there was a lot of talk about “let’s see this recession as an opportunity!” And, as much of a hackneyed phrase as that is, it does make some sense. When the going gets tough, the best take advantage of it to increase their market share. Whe...
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One of the things that we’ve heard repeatedly in the last few years is that Washington State’s tourism promotion budget ranks in the bottom 20% compared to other states in the country…and it hasn’t been getting better in the last year as we have dealt with huge budget deficits. But ju...
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They grow up so fast…it seems like only yesterday that Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. In fact, it was not yesterday, but rather February 13, 2009. Which makes today the nine month anniversary! ...
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Gaudi in Barcelona Today, the second meeting of the International Regions Benchmarking Consortium begins in Barcelona. Theconsortium was started two years ago by PSRC and the TDA of Greater Seattle,as a way to measure our economic performance against that of our peers around the world...
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Representatives from two Seattle employers (Microsoft and PATH), KONE Corporation in Helsinki and Fukuoka Urban Laboratory suggested the needs of creative companies to grow and attract talent...
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It might surprise many in this region to know that the Defense industry sector of military installations, has been an unqualified growth sector. Can you name one job site that has gained 13,000 jobs since 2004? If you’re having trouble naming just one, here it is: Fort Lewis. ...
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So Boeing’s opening a second line in South Carolina. Inevitably, fingers will be pointed. But at whom? ...
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Apologies to those of you who have seen this list in past years, but this is the first time I’ve seen Slate’s 80 over 80 list. First off, it’s a pretty hilarious spin on the standard 40 Under 40 that we see in places like our own Puget Sound Business Journal. Second: Barbara Walters is 80! (Cli...