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Regional Collaboration Develops "Innovation Valley"

Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley Governments Cooperate, Attract Anchor Tenant to New High Tech Park

Economic regionalism in the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley is paying off in the form of a state-of- the art high tech park with a cutting edge anchor tenant, officials announced today.

The city mayors of Alcoa and Maryville as well as the mayors of Blount and Knox Counties and the Economic Development Board of Blount County have named their 450-acre park located near McGhee Tyson regional airport the Pellissippi Research Centre, On the Oak Ridge Corridor. They announced the park’s first tenant will be Molecular Pathology Laboratory Network (MPLN). The Maryville- based molecular diagnostic company will build a new 70,000-square-foot, state- of-the-art laboratory on a promontory in the new park.

Full Story: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061019/clth142.html?.v=2

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Creativity, innovation extend to municipalities

James Carlini

In 1995, I gave a luncheon speech to the Chicago Bar Association entitled "Communication Rights-of-Way: Municipal Revenue Generators for the 21st Century." At that time, many who attended thought it was a novel idea but did not put that much faith in it.

My argument was that the horse-and-buggy taxes that focused on gasoline, cigarettes, and liquor were maxed out. Municipalities would have to become more creative to seek out revenue streams that could pay for services and pensions.

Full Story: http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=3396

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Report:Creative Economy Council needed to grow sector

By Leonard Stuart
Eagle-Tribune

Creation and funding of a Commonwealth Creative Economy Council to carry out a three-phase development plan is the critical first step urged in the final report of a statewide conference on growing the creative economy in Massachusetts.

Full Story: http://www.eagletribune.com/business/local_story_286160804

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