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This document promotes the innovation agenda of the state of Tennessee. Composed by New Economic Strategies (NES), the report uses survey methods and innovation metrics to plan out possible next steps for the state.

The report benchmarks the Baltimore region against top US metros, showing its economic growth and evolution over the past seven years, and is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of Greater Baltimores assets and position in the US economy, and to educate both the regional and national business community to make them aware of where Greater Baltimore stands in 2007.

This report provides an overview of the competitiveness debate and offers a 14 point "action agenda"

The ability of the U.S. to grow its economy and maintain its global economic strength depends on its ability to develop the “new breed” of technical and non-technical workers who can work across national, organizational, and cultural boundaries. The US economy is not threatened by the increase in the numbers of scientists and engineers in China and India, nor is there a lack of qualified science and engineering graduates in the U.S. The best competitiveness policy for the United States would not focus on efforts to monopolize the world’s science and technology human resources.

This report outlines a strategy to build the science and technology capacity of Canada. Published in 2007 by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

This report provides a overview of the modeling methods used by the North Carolina Department of Commerce to create incentive packages. In the opinion of the authors, the state has dramatically overstated the returns from several incentive deals.