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Job Corner: Carolina Center for Competitive Economies Seeks Associate Director for Research

The Carolina Center for Competitive Economies (C3E) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, invites applications for the position of Associate Director for Research. In addition to overseeing research activities and helping to generate new projects, the successful candidate will have an important role in supervising graduate students in applying regional models and providing other types of technical assistance to businesses and communities. Applicants should have graduate training in economics, regional science, city planning, business, public policy or a related field and 3-5 years of experience. A Ph.D. is preferred. A complete job description is available through the SSTI Job Corner at http://www.ssti.org/posting.htm.

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Temi Bova is the new director of Union College's U-start technology business incubator in Schenectady, N.Y.

The Ben Franklin Technology PArtners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania promoted Stephen Brawley to serve as president and CEO.

Alan Brown was named executive director of the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center, a newly formed economic development initiative.

The Wright Center of Innovation for Advanced Data Management and Analysis changed its name to daytaOhio and named Paul Cashen as its new president.

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Temi Bova is the new director of Union College's U-start technology business incubator in Schenectady, N.Y.

People

The Ben Franklin Technology PArtners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania promoted Stephen Brawley to serve as president and CEO.

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Alan Brown was named executive director of the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center, a newly formed economic development initiative.

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The Wright Center of Innovation for Advanced Data Management and Analysis changed its name to daytaOhio and named Paul Cashen as its new president.

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Former Lansing Community College president Paula Cunningham is the new director of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth.

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Dan Curran is the new director of the Business Development Division of the Nebraska Department of Development.

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Ted Ford, former president and CEO of the Edison Welding Institute, recently was named president and CEO of TECHColumbus.

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Sandy Johnson, interim CEO of the Mid-American Manufacturing Technology Center, was appointed to the position on a permanent basis.

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Roger Kilmer was appointed director of the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Kilmer served as acting director since Kevin Carr's departure last June.

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Sean O'Kane, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development, is resigning from the position at the end of his two-year term in March to return to the private sector.