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A Report by the Sustainable Economic Development Project. H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Carnegie Mellon University. For the Sustainable Pittsburgh Initiative.

Final Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Dr. Richard Florida, Mark Atlas. H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA

The Project. The report that follows is the product of the Urban Competitiveness Systems Synthesis Project of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Wherever one looks -in semiconductors, computers or biotechnology- the story is the same: The United States achieves a commanding lead in basic research, develops the start-up companies that pioneer cutting edge technologies, and then somehow fails to follow trough, leaving nations like Japan to mass-produce the products that the world wants.

Final Report to the Great Lakes Protection Fund.

Venture capital investment is a critical component of high technology economic growth. Although investment is perhaps the most important dimension of venture capital activity, there is virtually no literature on it…

The research upon which this chapter is based was undertaken in three parts. The first part involved the compilation of a comprehensive database of transplant assemblers and suppliers in the US…

Picture America. What do you see? The hustle and bustle of New York with Wall Street, the theatre district and bohemian neighbourhoods…

Since the early 1980s, State, local and regional economic development strategies have faced an accelerating pace of technological change, new patterns of work and production organization. The globalization of technology and markets is transforming economic development as we know it.