Austin is the newest city to test out Google Fiber’s 1-gigabit broadband service. What made the Lone Star capital the obvious choice?

Categories: Site Selection
Tagged: Broadband, gigabit communities, Innovation, silicon prairie, Technology,

The economy may be making strides, but U.S. competitiveness is at a crossroads, according to a recent Harvard Business School survey.

Categories: Research
Tagged: global competitiveness, Innovation, manufacturing,

Of the 100 firms on the newest America’s Most Promising Companies ranking, 34 are from California, and two dozen of those are technology companies.

Categories: Entrepreneurship, Research
Tagged: California economy, entrepreneurs, Innovation, STEM, Technology,

With their low-cost space, resources and wealth of research and ideas, libraries could make the next best business incubators for spurring entrepreneurship.

Categories: Entrepreneurship
Tagged: business incubators, entrepreneurs, Innovation, startups,

From shuttered auto plants to large corporations like Volkswagen, start-up firms are growing and innovating in unlikely business incubators.

Categories: Entrepreneurship
Tagged: automotive industry, business incubators, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Rust Belt,

Are cities with densely populated cores more progressive than others? Economist and “The Rise of the Creative Class” author Richard Florida thinks so — and here’s why.

Categories: Research
Tagged: creative class, density, economic growth, Innovation, Richard Florida, STEM,

What will the future economy look like, and what will cities need to do to compete in it? To stay ahead globally, they will need strong industry clusters, innovative ecosystems and a diverse talent base, according to Amy Liu, co-director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings Institution.

Categories: Job Creation, Workforce Development
Tagged: clean economy, diversity, Exports, global competition, Innovation, minorities, STEM, traded industries,