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The third annual action plan calls for increased recognition that economic development is a primary responsibility of every state agency and postsecondary education institution. The Council adopted 27 recommendations.

The plan sets forth growth strategies, goals and action itemsfor the Wyoming Business Council. The Councils purpose is to develop a statewide initiative to strengthen Wyomings foundation industries, to help communities attract and retain business, and to create new job opportunities throughout the state.

The Foundation under Gov. John Hoeven, outlines its vision and mission for North Dakota Economic Development strategies. Six specific goals are discussed.

The report is an economic framework and a challenge to create a new and better Montana. It is a guide to economic expansion and a platform for creative initiatives, covering five platforms.

The paper provides a framework for categorizing state technology programs and uses detailed case studies to examine how these programs augment firms capabilities.

The paper examines the sources of the U. S. macroeconomic miracle of 1995-2000 and attempts to distinguish among permanent sources of American leadership in high-technology industries, as contrasted with the particular post-1995 episode of technological acceleration, and with other independent sources of the economic miracle unrelated to technology.

The report from the Brookings Institute analyzes long-term population and per capita income growth trends in the 100 largest metropolitan areas, categorizes these metro areas by their ability to achieve income growth without adding more people, and determines policy implications for
regional economic development strategies.

The aim of he paper is to show the main determinants of industrial location processes using local data (for Catalan municipalities) to portray phenomena such as agglomeration economies, which are normally studied at regional or national level better. Results indicate that the characteristics of a municipality strongly affect the location decisions of industrial establishments.

The report addresses the current state of knowledge of space as it is reflected in published data reports. Options available to improve the collection and distribution of space economic data are reviewed, and specific recommendations for making space economic data more accurate, reliable, and available are offered.

The paper shows that the mathematical structure of the most widely used New Economic Geography models is the same, irrespective of the underlying agglomeration mechanism assumed. The paper also stresses the empirical implications of the most important results derived in this study.