The world of workforce development is changing. The workforce is facing a number of significant pressures in the current economy, including: Forecasts of sustained high unemployment Fiscal constraints affecting traditional state and federal funding sources shifts in worker demographics The structure of employment opportunities The nature of
Read more →The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ (A۰P۰L۰U) Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity (CICEP) will hold its summer meeting in Omaha, Nebraska from Monday, June 4 at noon continuing through noon on Wednesday, June 6. The event will be held at the Magnolia Hotel
Read more →Please read this and act now on this important request! The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to consider the FY2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill, which funds the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA). The bill will be debated on the House floor today, May 8 and
Read more →An organization that has been around nearly 50 years helping Tennessee manufacturers address problems is not forgetting its heritage while also adopting an aggressive innovation assistance strategy. The University of Tennessee’s Center for Industrial Services (UT CIS) was established in 1963 as the Tennessee Industrial Research and
Read more →Lehigh University‘s Industrial and Systems Engineering department in collaboration with the Enterprise Systems Center has been named a finalist for the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) UPS George D. Smith Prize. This new award has been created in the spirit of strengthening ties
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — In 2009, the Mentholatum Company faced challenges in meeting targeted production levels of its non-prescription pharmaceutical and health care products. Officials at the Orchard Park headquarters of the global health-and-wellness company needed to improve the capacity and overall effectiveness of the business in a
Read more →The purpose of EDA’s University Center Economic Development Program is to assist institutions of higher education and consortia of institutions of higher education in establishing and operating University Centers specifically focused on leveraging university assets to build regional economic ecosystems that support high-growth entrepreneurship. Since FY 2004,
Read more →See CDI-Flyer for more information on the 2012 Community Development Institute at the University of Central Arkansas.
Read more →The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States The U.S Department of Commerce today delivered to Congress a comprehensive report on “The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States.” The report serves as a call to arms, highlighting bipartisan priorities to sustain and promote American
Read more →Chattanooga will play host to the 2012 UEDA Summit, where the focus will be on energy…both the sector and our energy as an organization. Save the dates of October 21 – 23, 2012. More details will follow.
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