Regional Economic Development

SBA’s Monthly News Update -Serving Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming- Newsline Eight is circulated to our resource and lending partners by SBA’s Region Eight Office Newsletter: http://www.matr.net/files/NewslineEight-july2005.pdf

Big payoffs could come for South Dakota, which has been quick to develop and implement biotechnology but slow to capture a broad foreign market.

When Spokane recognised that there was a crop of productive, contributing citizens slipping through their fingertips they did something about it.

Both firms said this week they’ll establish presences in Portland thanks at least partly to their OIF program participation.

Broken down by industry, 40 percent of the money will be devoted to software and technology; 40 percent will go to emerging growth companies, such as biomedical and agribusiness; and 20 percent will go to other categories.

Companies are betting that by doing business in cheaper locations and paying workers much less than their big-city counterparts, they can secure jobs that might otherwise go offshore.

Southern Growth Policies Board’s 2005 Report on the Future of the South Released June 12th at the Rising Together: Summit on the Rural South conference in Point Clear, Alabama, The New Architecture of Rural Prosperity…

"As a group we have this enormous basket of goods,"

"Now is the time for strong, cooperative, regional leadership on the issue. This will take time. It will also take trust." "We must plant more seeds, not simply put out fires."

The June edition of the SBA Solutions newsletter is packed with ways for you to prepare your business for the unexpected. This month you’ll find: 1. Q and A on how to prepare your business…