-
Join your peers at SSTI's 2024 Annual Conference!
Join us December 10-12 in Arizona to connect with and learn from your peers working around the country to strengthen their regional innovation economies. Visit ssticonference.org for more information and to register today.
-
As the most comprehensive resource available for those involved in technology-based economic development, SSTI offers the services that are needed to help build tech-based economies. Learn more about membership...
-
Subscribe to the SSTI Weekly Digest
Each week, the SSTI Weekly Digest delivers the latest breaking news and expert analysis of critical issues affecting the tech-based economic development community. Subscribe today!
TBED People and Organizations
President Obama has named Ron Bloom as the administration's senior counselor for manufacturing policy. Since, February, Bloom has been a senior adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and he sits on the president's automotive industry task force.
Detroit Renaissance and the Michigan Business Leadership Council are uniting to form a new organization called Business Leaders for Michigan. The new organization supports the Michigan Turnaround Plan.
The U.S. Senate confirmed John Fernandez as assistant secretary of commerce for economic development. A former Mayor of Bloomington, IN, Fernadez will oversee the Economic Development Administration.
President Obama announced his intent to nominate physicist Patrick Gallagher to be the 14th director of the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Stands and Technology (NIST). Gallagher is currently the NIST deputy director.
Lisa Martinez resigned as Missouri's economic development director. Deputy director Katie Steele Danner has been named the department's interim director.
Ohio Gov. Ted Stickland has named Lisa Patt-McDaniel director of the Department of Development. Patt-McDaniel has served as the departments interim director since Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher stepped down in February.
Michigan, Missouri, Ohio