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Advanced Industries Series

The Advanced Industries Series provides ground-breaking research and innovative strategy recommendations aimed at increasing the competitiveness of these industries so as to increase regional and national prosperity.

Metropolitan Lens: The Texas economy in an age of cheap oil
REUTERS/Smiley N. Pool - A sheen of oil is seen around a pump jack surrounded by flood waters in High Island, Texas after the passing of Hurricane Ike, September 14, 2008.
Cities & Communities Metropolitan Lens: The Texas economy in an age of cheap oil

Devashree Saha

August 24, 2016

Advanced industries growth: A narrowing base?
Advanced industries' employment share change, 2010-2015
Cities & Communities Advanced industries growth: A narrowing base?

Mark Muro

August 17, 2016

Economic inclusion requires a robust advanced sector, but too few of these industries are growing
Reuters. Stephen Lam - Customers visit the Tesla factory in Fremont, California October 1, 2011. Electric carmaker Tesla Motors threw open its factory doors to customers who have preordered its forthcoming Model S sedan on Saturday evening. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS TRANSPORT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - RTR2S41J
Cities & Communities Economic inclusion requires a robust advanced sector, but too few of these industries are growing

Mark Muro

August 4, 2016

America’s advanced industries: New trends
Digital services were a major source of advanced industries job creation from 2012 to 2015. | Image credit: Markus Spiske, https://techdaily.ca/
Cities & Communities America’s advanced industries: New trends

Mark Muro, Siddharth Kulkarni

August 3, 2016

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