PCRD Blog
  • Market opportunities for developing Chicago's green economy
    The Delta Institute in Chicago, which promotes building a "green economy" in the Great lakes region, released an interesting report last week. The study explores the market opportunities for clean technologies in the Greater Chicago market. You can read more......More
  • Linking and leveraging university assets to strengthen regional economies
    On Sunday, we are launching our week-log Strategic Doing certification course at Purdue. The first class -- 23 economic and workforce development professionals -- draws from Indiana. We are focused on making our 14 county region around Purdue a hot......More
  • Georgia governor releases competitiveness report
    Georgia has released its Competitiveness Report. The most intense response from the public came in the area of education and workforce. Like Tennessee's effort at a statewide strategy, the report breaks the state into regions. Georgia Competitiveness Report January 2012.pdf......More
  • Alabama's economic development strategy documents
    Earlier this week, Alabama's governor released a new statewide strategy, Accelerate Alabama. You can learn more about the strategy from this CBS news report. The project web site, hosted by the consulting firm contracted for the project, is here. On......More