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From Bottom to Boom in 2 Years

October 19, 2011 Economic Development

FLINT – A sign says “Hybrid vehicle testing area” in the middle of Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy’s growing headquarters. Diplomat has hired more than 500 people so rapidly that workers haven’t had time to replace all the old GM signs with new ones.
Just two years ago, 500 General Motors employees worked here, on the site of [...]

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Tagged as: economic diversification, Economic Growth, Jobs

Midwest and Canadian trade, export and transportation summit starts Sunday

October 13, 2011 Events

Trade, transportation and export professionals from Michigan, Ohio, Ontario and Nova Scotia will gather at the Great Lakes International Trade and Transport Hub Summit taking place October 16-18 at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing.
The summit will connect policy leaders, industry experts, economic developers and researchers and provide a forum in which to identify what [...]

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Tagged as: economic diversification, Events, export, great lakes, trade, transportation

Michigan No. 1 for tech job growth

October 7, 2011 Information Technology

  Michigan leads the nation in tech job growth, according to the latest 2010 TechAmerica report, putting the state in the national spotlight along with the winning Detroit Tigers.
Michigan, which lost more jobs than any other state during the past decade, has been a national comeback leader in recent weeks. Just last month, Newsweek / [...]

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Tagged as: economic diversification, high tech jobs, tech jobs

Detroit area to grow jobs around advanced energy storage systems

September 23, 2011 Advanced Energy Storage

Southeast Michigan has been awarded $2.1 million through the federal Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge to create new jobs and technologies related to the rapidly emerging advanced energy storage system (AESS) industry cluster.
The initiative is being coordinated by Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW), a national nonprofit based in Ann Arbor that focuses on creating [...]

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Tagged as: advanced battery, Alternative Energy, economic diversification, electric vehicle R&D, Jobs

Class can help small businesses win lucrative defense contracts

April 8, 2011 Events

Each year, the federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars on everything from ready-to-eat meals to socks to tanks. Michigan businesses now have a great opportunity to win the contracts that supply these goods to our armed services.
“The country’s going to stay in the national security business,” Dr. Ashton Carter, Undersecretary of Defense for [...]

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Tagged as: economic diversification, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, homeland security and defense, Resources

Outlook sunny for Michigan’s solar, wind sectors

March 28, 2011 Solar Energy

Michigan is known the world over for being the state that put the world on wheels.  This might soon change, reports the Chicago-based Environmental Law & Policy Center, as Michigan is becoming a leader in North American renewable-energy jobs and green technology.
Nationwide, Michigan ranks fourth in the number of jobs tied to solar energy and [...]

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Tagged as: Alternative Energy, economic diversification, Economic Growth, Green Technology, renewable energy manufacturing, solar industry, wind energy

Detroit hottest spot in nation for tech job openings

February 10, 2011 Information Technology

Calling all techies! Detroit is hiring. According to Dice.com, which is currently tracking about 75,000 available tech and IT jobs nationwide, the Detroit area is leading all other areas in growth in demand for technology professionals from a year ago.
Dice senior VP Tom Silver said in his report:
“Detroit tops the list with more than 800 available [...]

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Tagged as: economic diversification, Economic Growth, IT jobs, tech jobs

More than 6,000 new jobs, $2.1 billion investment planned for Michigan

October 27, 2010 Great Companies

Tuesday, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm and the MEDC announced a historic $2.1 billion investment by companies in Michigan, creating more than 6,000 new job opportunities for workers in the state and retaining more than 216,000 jobs.
State incentives will help16 companies grow in Michigan and back one brownfield redevelopment project.  Included are major investments by Ford, [...]

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Tagged as: Alternative Energy, automotive manufacturing, brownfield redevelopment, economic development attraction/retention programs, economic diversification, Economic Growth, electric vehicle manufacturing, electric vehicle R&D, global automotive innovation, green manufacturing, Green Technology

Over 4,200 New Jobs Planned for Michigan

September 15, 2010 Advanced Manufacturing

Tuesday, Symmetry Medical announced it would invest approximately $14.8 million to expand in Lansing to meet growing demand for their high-precision machining, creating up to 159 jobs. Symmetry could have chosen to expand at its facility in Malaysia, but it chose Michigan because of our highly skilled workers and competitive business climate.
That was only one [...]

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Tagged as: aerospace industry, Alternative Energy, automotive manufacturing, economic development attraction/retention programs, economic diversification, Economic Growth, green manufacturing, Green Technology, high-tech medical industry, manufacturing diversification, renewable energy manufacturing

New York Times Highlights Business Climate, Talented Workforce in Michigan

February 16, 2010 Industry Sectors

This weekend, the New York Times profiled several Michigan companies who are succeeding in diversifying into new, high-growth sectors. Thanks to the MEDC’s robust toolbox of economic development tools and resources combined with Michigan’s competitive business climate, companies are finding that Michigan can give them an upper hand.
NTR’s chief executive, Jim Barry, said, “It should [...]

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Tagged as: economic diversification, global automotive innovation, manufacturing diversification

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