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This paper examines how knowledge is created and transferred among firms within a geographical
bounded industrial cluster.

This paper argues that there has been inadequate investment in methodology, often resulting in low quality evaluation outputs. The author discusses techniques in three areas of contemporary relevance: measuring agency performance and other studies that aggregate across evaluations; evaluation methods at the project level; and sustainability analysis.

The authors discuss metrics of globalization for individual economies as distance measures between fully integrated and trade restricted equilibria in economies initially operating under less than full integration with the global economy.

This paper applies the NATREX model of equilibrium exchange rates to evaluate several key studies of the Central and Eastern European Countries in general, with particular emphasis upon the Czech Republic and Hungary and with references to Poland and Bulgaria.

The authors propose an analysis of vertical integration and specialization centered on the coupled dynamics of competencies, market structure and on the co-evolution of the upstream and downstream industries.

Since its inception in 1987, OCAST has invested $118 million in Oklahoma reserach, development, technology, commercialization and manufacturing modernization and has attracted more than $1.4 billion in private and federal funding.

PTCs annual State of the Industry report gathers growth indicators from state and federal resources to track southwestern Pennsylvanias employment statistics, number of tech companies, and total annual payroll for information technology, life science, advanced manufacturing, advanced materials, and environmental technology industries. According to PTC, the goal is to quantify the impact and draw attention to the regions significant technological resources.

This report analyzed economic and demographic trends throughout the 12-county region, including population growth, annual wage figures and crime rates. The report will be used to form a unified plan for development of the region.

This report highlights the many economic, educational, and community benefits of Pennsylvania’s independent colleges and universities. According to the report, independent colleges and universities in Pennsylvania
directly employ over 71,000 individuals and annually
distribute over $4 billion in salaries and wages.

This report asserts that a new approach is needed in support of the arts. This new approach offers a more comprehensive view of how the arts create private and public value, underscores the importance of the arts’ intrinsic benefits, and links the creation of benefits to arts involvement.