This article examines the inflow and outflow of workers to different industries in Georgia during the information technology (IT) boom of the 1990s and the subsequent bust. Workers in the software and computer services industry were much more likely to have been absent from the Georgia workforce...

The experience of intermediate steel-industry suppliers in the Pittsburgh region offers valuable insight into how traditional industrial clusters can serve as a source of economic resilience in regions like Pittsburgh, where a “signature†industry contracts or relocates. The authors...

Renewed scholarly interest in clusters of firms has increased attention on institutions—including business associations—that serve them. Scholars investigating “labor market intermediaries†also wonder to what extent employers' associations conduct workforce development....

Western multinational corporations (MNCs) increasingly locate advanced functions, including product development and engineering, in emerging economies to gain access to lower-cost science and engineering (S&E) talent and specialized service providers. Over time, new S&E clusters have developed...

This study offers an initial exploration of the green building cluster in Portland, Oregon. Specific objectives include assessing how the factors identified in Michael Porter's “diamond†support the green building industry cluster in this region, describing the trends in terms of...

This empirical research examines the effects of state research and development (R&D) tax credits on the size of the high-technology business sector. In addition to a description of federal and state R&D tax credit programs, this article estimates a model that relates each of the two alternate...

Climate change is an economic development issue, not just an environmental issue. Private businesses have begun to invest heavily in low-carbon technologies, but market imperfections, including uncertainties about new technologies, mean that public dollars will also be required. Billions of...

Despite widespread adoption of creative class economic development strategies, one of its basic tenets—the connection between community tolerance (running through talented individuals and high-tech employment) and economic health and growth—has not been sufficiently tested. This...

Many countries use location incentives programs to attract investment into a recipient country as a whole or to priority regions, with the goal of promoting growth. The authors focus on two cases, both involving location-related incentives programs, one to shift resources to disadvantaged...