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Keeping Tennessee Auto and Advanced Industries Competitive

October 4, 2013, Mark Muro

Drive! Moving Tennessee's Automotive Sector Up the Value Chain

October 4, 2013, Mark Muro, Scott Andes, Kenan Fikri, Martha Ross, Jessica Lee, Neil G. Ruiz and Nick Marchio

Tennessee needs to complement its cost appeal with new production efficiency, top-flight workforce training, and a flare for product and process innovation.

October 4, 2013, Mark Muro, The Examiner

Catalyzing Manufacturing Competitiveness

September 12, 2013, Mark Muro

Gene Sperling on Manufacturing Renaissance: It’s More than Cyclical!

July 31, 2013, Mark Muro

Manufacturing U.S. Prosperity: A Policy Discussion

July 25, 2013

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The 10 Traits of Globally Fluent Metro Areas: To ‘Go Global’ Metro Areas Need to Roll with Global Change

July 22, 2013, Mark Muro

Strengthening Employment Pathways to Prosperous Careers

July 17, 2013, Jessica Lee and Mark Muro

Economic Cluster Policy Begins to Work

July 9, 2013, Mark Muro

Manufacturing Renaissance Heads to Fort Worth with Motorola Announcement

June 10, 2013, Scott Andes and Mark Muro

Cost Convergence with China: An Energizer for U.S. Manufacturing?

June 3, 2013, Mark Muro

Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing, Region by Region

May 13, 2013, Mark Muro

DOE’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative Leverages Regions

May 6, 2013, Scott Andes and Mark Muro

Revving Up Manufacturing, Region by Region

April 11, 2013, Mark Muro and Jessica Lee

Jobs Alone Do Not Explain the Importance of Manufacturing

April 3, 2013, Scott Andes and Mark Muro

Flow Oil and Gas Revenues to Cleantech R&D: Common Ground on Energy?

March 18, 2013, Mark Muro

Sequestration Shock: Smart D.C. Metro Will Figure It Out

March 12, 2013, Mark Muro and Jessica Lee

[Washington, DC's reliance on goverment is] a relatively less dangerous addiction than others. Diversification can never be sold until it’s too late. Complexity breeds resilience. It’s true in natural systems, and it’s true in economics.

March 7, 2013, Mark Muro, Washington Post

Regional Innovation Clusters Begin to Add Up

February 27, 2013, Mark Muro

There is a lot of logic to [Obama's oil-funded clean-energy research proposal]. It resonates to a broad segment of the population that we should make the best of fossil fuels while accelerating the effort to transform our energy system.

February 14, 2013, Mark Muro, Bloomberg Businessweek

Manufacturing Hubs: What and Why?

February 13, 2013, Mark Muro and Kenan Fikri

Launch! Taking Colorado’s Space Economy to the Next Level

February 5, 2013

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Launch! Taking Colorado’s Space Economy to the Next Level

February 5, 2013, Mark Muro, Devashree Saha, Kenan Fikri, Jessica Lee and Nick Marchio

[Colorado] is entering a period where it has an opportunity to be the Silicon Valley of space.

February 5, 2013, Mark Muro, The Associated Press

Advancing Advanced Industries

February 5, 2013, Mark Muro