Regional Economic Development

Colleges are invited to send a delegate to the Experiential Classroom V for entrepreneurship teacher training. This is a rigorous three-day clinic featuring some of the master teachers in the field of entrepreneurship sharing the…

Because companies deduct state and local tax payments from
their federal tax liability, state and local taxes make up
only 0.8 percent of total costs, or 80 cents out of every
$100, hardly enough to mean the difference between profit
and loss.

"I’ve always loved North Dakota," she said. "After traveling in all the states, we liked North Dakota the best. The mountains in Washington and Idaho are one thing, but people have so much pride here. Agriculture is appreciated here. You can tell."

"This is an opportunity to close that divide and help people with economic development efforts. Broadband has unlimited potential."

They will also set the stage for one of the more important international events to be held in Spokane in many years, a meeting of the Sister Cities International Conference scheduled for July 2005. Nothing since Expo ’74 has presented so grand an occasion to showcase the area’s quality of life and business opportunities. About 1,200 delegates, 30 percent from outside the United States, are expected to attend.

A couple dozen Inland Northwest technology companies, plus area economic development groups and universities, have banded together on a post-9-11 project that is, at the same time, enormously ambitious and obvious.

"Regional collaboration creates a competitive advantage," "Today the real game is not about attracting outside business; it’s about growing existing business," (Was there anyone from Montana at these meetings? If so, we’d like to talk with you about your impressions and suggestions.- thanks, Russ)

A new report by the Center for Economic Development at Carnegie Mellon University documents case studies of the university role in promoting and sustaining industry clusters, and assesses the factors that are vital to successful university-industry cluster development.

Over the past nine months, Missouri has created more jobs than all but nine other states, and throughout the national recession, Missouri’s unemployment rate has remained below most other states.

Health care accounts for one in five Spokane jobs, and there’s opportunity for even more, asserts a report released Monday. David Bunting, an Eastern Washington University economics professor, determined that about 50,000 jobs in Spokane…