Download or read book Rising to the Challenge written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's position as the source of much of the world's global innovation has been the foundation of its economic vitality and military power in the post-war. No longer is U.S. pre-eminence assured as a place to turn laboratory discoveries into new commercial products, companies, industries, and high-paying jobs. As the pillars of the U.S. innovation system erode through wavering financial and policy support, the rest of the world is racing to improve its capacity to generate new technologies and products, attract and grow existing industries, and build positions in the high technology industries of tomorrow. Rising to the Challenge: U.S. Innovation Policy for Global Economy emphasizes the importance of sustaining global leadership in the commercialization of innovation which is vital to America's security, its role as a world power, and the welfare of its people. The second decade of the 21st century is witnessing the rise of a global competition that is based on innovative advantage. To this end, both advanced as well as emerging nations are developing and pursuing policies and programs that are in many cases less constrained by ideological limitations on the role of government and the concept of free market economics. The rapid transformation of the global innovation landscape presents tremendous challenges as well as important opportunities for the United States. This report argues that far more vigorous attention be paid to capturing the outputs of innovation - the commercial products, the industries, and particularly high-quality jobs to restore full employment. America's economic and national security future depends on our succeeding in this endeavor.

Download or read book The Characterization and Impact of the Automotive and Motorsport Supply Chain in North Carolina and the Greater Charlotte Region written by Jason Michael Grai and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this study is to characterize the automotive and motorsport supply chain and assess its economic impact in North Carolina with a specific focus on the Greater Charlotte Region. The results of this study will be beneficial to the local government and the economic development boards to understand the automotive and motorsport supply chain in the region and to prioritize their efforts to retain and grow different components of this industry, in North Carolina and the Greater Charlotte Region. The results can also help to deal with competitive threats nationally as well as globally from other states and countries, and to target and recruit more automotive, and motorsport companies to North Carolina and to the Greater Charlotte Region. The presented analysis uses economic data from the US Census Bureau, US Department of Commerce, and Minnesota IMPLAN Group (MIG). Impact analysis computations are carried out using the MIG software. Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping was applied to locate the automotive and motorsports companies in the region. This study has determined that the North Carolina automotive and motorsport supply chain players includes: Suppliers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Wholesalers/Distributors, Retailers, Service Providers, and Transporters. Together these supply chain players' inputs over $42.5 billion dollars and outputs over $81.4 billion dollars in direct, indirect, and induced goods and services related in the automotive and motorsport industries, in North Carolina. The total value added (TVA) of this supply chain is $38.8 billion dollars. In addition, the supply chain generates 468,840 jobs, with employee compensation of $24.3 billion dollars. These jobs account for 9% of the total North Carolina workforce or I in every 11.3 North Carolina jobs, and 12% of all North Carolina employee compensation. Through the MIG impact models, it is recommended to recruit supply chain players with the largest potential economic impact. The types of companies that would have the largest impact in North Carolina are Light Truck and Utility Vehicle Manufacturing (OEMs), Heavy-Duty Truck Manufacturing (OEMs), and Transporters by Water (Transporters). Since North Carolina already has a strong presence in heavy-duty truck manufacturing and a deep-sea port, it is recommended that these types of industries be pursued to complement the existing strong presence. The MIG economic model predicted that if 1,000 new jobs were created in the Light Truck and Utility Vehicle Manufacturing OEM sector, it would have a substantial impact on the North Carolina economy. An OEM in this sector would create 7,986.4 direct, indirect, and induced jobs with an employee compensation of $430 million dollars added to the North Carolina economy.

Download or read book The Economic Impact of BMW on South Carolina written by Darla Moore School of Business. Division of Research and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reauthorization of the Economic Redevelopment Administration hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate One Hundred Eighth Congress second session April 28 2004 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reauthorization of the Economic Development Administration written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economic Impact of the Military in South Carolina written by David L. Schunk and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Innovation Policy Impact written by Jakob Edler and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation underpins competitiveness, is crucial to addressing societal challenges, and its support has become a major public policy goal. But what really works in innovation policy, and why? This Handbook, compiled by leading experts in the field, is the first comprehensive guide to understanding the logic and effects of innovation polices. The Handbook develops a conceptualisation and typology of innovation policies, presents meta-evaluations for 16 key innovation policy instruments and analyses evidence on policy-mix. For each policy instrument, underlying rationales and examples are presented, along with a critical analysis of the available impact evidence. Providing access to primary sources of impact analysis, the book offers an insightful assessment of innovation policy practice and its evaluation.

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Manufacturing Industries in the Global Economy written by Bryson, John R. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Research Agenda provides a state-of-the-art review of existing research on manufacturing, as well as highlighting key areas of study to advance the field. Expert contributors from across the globe analyse the central role of manufacturing industries in the global economy, considering it as a multi-scalar process and assessing the impact of climate change in necessitating the decarbonization of production processes.

Download or read book Divided Province written by Greg Albo and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No government jurisdiction in Canada has so radically transformed its public policies over the past decades as Ontario, and yet the province has also maintained a striking degree of political stability in its party system. Since the 1990s, neoliberalism has been the point of reference in constructing policy agendas for all of Ontario's political parties. It has guided the strategy for governance of the dominant Liberal Party since 2003, even as it divides the province between workers and employers, north and south, rural and urban, and racialized minorities and the majority population. With a focus on the governments of Mike Harris, Dalton McGuinty, and Kathleen Wynne, Divided Province brings together leading researchers to dissect the province's public policies since the 1990s. Presenting original, state-of-the-art research, the book demonstrates that, although the Conservative government of Mike Harris implemented the sharpest and most profound shift towards the establishment of a neoliberal regime in the province, the subsequent Liberal governments consolidated that neoliberal turn. The essays in this volume explore the consequences of this ideological turn across a spectrum of policies, including health, education, poverty, energy, employment, manufacturing, and how it has impacted workers, women, First Nations, and other distinct communities. The first book to offer a comprehensive critical account of neoliberalism in Ontario, Divided Province overturns conventional readings of the province's politics and suggests that building a more democratic and egalitarian alternative to the current orthodoxy requires nothing less than a radical rupture from existing policies and political alliances. Without such a decisive break, political space may well open up again for the populist right.

Download or read book The Economic Impact of the University of South Carolina written by Joseph C. Von Nessen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyzes the economic impact of USC (including the impact of each individual campus) on the South Carolina economy. The economic impact of the University of South Carolina is far reaching and has both individual and social components. The lives of individual alumni are improved through earning higher wages and a lifetime of better job opportunities, while the community at large also benefits through economic spillover effects and a net increase in tax revenue for the state of South Carolina.

Download or read book The Heartbeat of Hartsville written by Joseph C. Von Nessen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study specifically estimates the economic impact of Sonoco on the state of South Carolina as a whole as well as on eight specific regions within the state.

Download or read book Underappreciated Assetts written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economic Impact of South Carolina s Life Science Industry written by Joseph C. Von Nessen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual economic impact of the life science industry on the state of South Carolina totals approximately $11.4 billion in total economic output. The life science industry supports a significant demand for high-wage, high-skill jobs in various STEM fields. The life science industry in South Carolina currently consists of approximately 15,012 employees across 402 firms. South Carolina's life science industry has been one of the fastest growing sectors over the past decade and has been a major contributor to the state's current economic expansion. Since 2005, annual employment growth within the life science industry has averaged approximately 1.7 percent, which is more than twice that of the state as a whole over the same time period (0.8%).

Download or read book BMW in South Carolina written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Business and Economic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economic Impact of the Arts in South Carolina written by Donald L. Schunk and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Geography of the Carolinas written by David Gordon Bennett and published by Parkway Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vibrant high-tech centers, shifting barrier islands, okra festivals, Yankee and Latino immigrants, Blue Ridge vistas, world-class universities and empty textile mills-this is the Carolinas. A region of striking natural beauty, rich history, and a rapidly changing economic base, the Carolinas are "Old South" and "New South," intimately local and inextricably global. In A Geography of the Carolinas, eleven noted geographers explore the region's historical, cultural and physical landscapes. Bringing the perspective of the science of geography and a wealth of experience and knowledge, the contributors reveal the patterns, processes, and connections at work in these two great states. Each chapter is an exploration of this diverse terrain of places and peoples, and a fascinating journey for those who wish to understand the past, present, and future of the Carolinas. Book jacket.