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The report recommends that Carroll County’s focus be on making the region’s research and development strengths available to the county’s companies, entrepreneurs and citizens, and on rapidly diffusing knowledge, even if it is not generated in the county. To build on existing strengths, the report recommends the county nurture entrepreneurship by research faculty who live in the county and work in universities, federal laboratories, or corporate research and development facilities elsewhere in the region.

The report contends that the economic future of a key rust belt state depends on revitalizing its demographic mix and curbing radical patterns of sprawl and abandonment. The report concludes that these trends are not inevitable, and can be reshaped if the state embraces a dynamic new vision of economic competitiveness that links prosperity to the revival of older cities and towns.

The National Association of Development Organizations report outlines the challenges and concerns of economic distressed regions. The report also addresses the role of local development districts, which are responsible for facilitating action within their areas.

Results of the study indicate that if the University of Connecticut were no longer operating, Connecticuts Gross State Product would decline by almost $2.8 billion and employment would decrease by 25,000 jobs.

The paper provides a critique of the use of growth regressions to derive policy implications. The author suggests that policymakers are unable to make better decisions based solely on regression results and proposes an alternative approach to the interpretation of growth regression.

In an attempt to rebuild Silicon Valleys economy, create more jobs, and improve the areas quality of life, the plan from Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network offers four strategic action-based initiatives within its report. The initiatives are interrelated and mutually reinforcing.

The report from the City of San Jose discusses 15 economic strategy initiatives the city should pursue to achieve its desired economic outcome. The strategy contains four key parts: Outcomes; Vision; Strategic Initiatives; and Tactics.

The paper considers the way geographers and economists approach the study of economic geography. The author concludes that is unlikely technological convergence between economic geographers and geographical economists will happen anytime soon.

The report describes the process and outcome of a Success Scenario Workshop on how universities could contribute to the development of the city region of Manchester as a knowledge capital, with its economy founded on science and the creative sector.

The study from the National Bureau of Economic Research uses four approaches to address the possibility that the rise of the skilled city is the result of a spurious correlation between local skills and other urban characteristics. The evidence presented supports the view that skills induce growth.