Regional Economic Development

The report represents the culmination of a successful year of accompishments under the organization’s five year strategic plan.

the study found that Boise, similar in size to Spokane, has lots in common with one of the most successful knowledge-based economies in the United States: California’s Silicon Valley.

A whitewater park in Colorado along Golden’s Clear Creek brings an estimated $1.4 million a year into the community through hotel, restaurant and other revenue, according to one consulting firm’s study. And promoters say the parks’ advantages go beyond the bottom line by helping improve river quality.

"It’s an important thing, a timely thing, a coming together and recognition that we are a region," said Larry Paulson, Port of Vancouver’s executive director.

The rate of patent growth is almost one-quarter higher than the national rate. Technology employment is within one percent of the national average, and federally performed R&D in the south nearly doubled the national rate in the last three decades

On Tuesday, Lance Morgan, chief executive of Ho-Chunk Inc. in Winnebago, Neb., will assume a nearly full-time advisory role to the head of the BIA to help reshape bureau policy and economic development.

SBA’s Monthly News Update Regional Administrator Notes: by Mick Ringsak Family-owned business thrives in Rapid City. From time to time I think it would be good to tell you about some of the fantastic SBA…

Using an approach that brings similar businesses together into "clusters" to discuss what their particular industry needs, Zacher and a mob of dedicated volunteers have seen business owners drop their hostility toward competitors and talk opening about their concerns, fears and hopes.

On October 4, 2004, NTIA announced the award of $14.4 million in Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) grants to 27 non-profit organizations, including state, local and tribal governments, in 22 states and the District of Columbia….

The region’s water agencies are proposing a mammoth project to pump groundwater from rural parts of the state, spending millions paying homeowners to tear out their lawns to reduce consumption and praying that the states will work out a deal.