Walk into any tourism office, and you’ll find a team crafting campaigns to attract visitors. Down the hall—or sometimes even just a few desks away—another team is focused on economic development, ...

Enterprise sales deals are taking longer to close today compared to what we saw pre-pandemic. According to a study by CAP, on average, B2B sales cycles have become 3.8 weeks longer. That is no ...

Increasingly individual states are actively setting policy agendas that directly influence R&D. This meeting discussed what roles states ideally have in influencing the R&D agenda and competitiveness; ...

Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam, on Monday, announced he has filled the newly created position of marketing director for the city. Shannon Frost, who started Monday, spent the past three years and ...

Analyze the actors and tools that shape economic growth in developing countries, from the perspective of both agencies and banks and the recipient countries affected by their policies. Driving ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

If a job is about more than the title or even the pay—but also a chance to find a deeper meaning and sense of purpose—the honorees in the inaugural class of most innovative companies in economic ...

Education is the foundation of any functioning society: It prepares people to live cohesively in a community, participate politically, and contribute economically. Investing in education has ...