COMMENTARY: WHITE PAPERS
URC Analysis: State Can Become a Leader in Alternative Energy
(1.7 MB PDF, 32 pages)
Key Findings from 2008 Preliminary URC Report
(172 KB PDF, 1 page)
Center for Michigan’s 2008 Michigan Scorecard: Benchmarks for Michigan’s Transformation
(4.8 MB PDF, 17 pages)
The Michigan Roadmap Redux: A Call for Leadership
Michigan Future Inc.: Michigan’s transition to a knowledge-based economy: First annual report 2008
(171 KB PDF, 31 pages)
Michigan’s Alternative Energy Potential
(1.12 MB PDF, 23 page NextEnergy report from the IPPSR Public Policy Forum, Jan. 30, 2008)
NSF Science and Engineering Indicators 2008
Michigan’s Alternative Energy Potential
(24 page NextEnergy report from the IPPSR Public Policy Forum, Jan. 30, 2008, PDF)
(244 KB PDF file, 13 pages)
University Research Corridor Annual Report
(768 KB PDF file, 32 pages.)
First Annual Economic Impact Report: Michigan’s University Research Corridor
(2.1 MB PDF file, 83 pages.)
Increases in higher education spending, 2002-2007
(243 KB PDF file, 1 page.)
Innovation America: A compact for Postsecondary education, released by the National Governors Association
(2 MB PDF file, 28 pages.)
Michigan’s Economic Transition: Toward a Knowledge Economy
(308 KB PDF file, 12 pages.)
Michigan women and the high-tech knowledge economy
(428 KB PDF, 37 pages)
Preliminary Report: The economic benefits of the University Research Corridor
(524 KB PDF file, 20 pages.)
The first annual Economic Impact Report: Michigan’s University Research Corridor
supersedes the preliminary report.
Study: The Economic Impact of MSU
View the complete 89-page report
(2.5 MB PDF file, 89 pages.)
Expansion Management rankings of top areas for knowledge economy workers
(40 KB PDF file, 2 pages.)
America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Immigrant entrepreneurs founded 25.3 percent of the U.S. engineering and technology companies established in the past decade, according to a new study from Duke University. What’s more, foreign nationals—those living in the United States who are not citizens—contributed to an estimated 24.2 percent of international patent applications in 2006. (PDF, 740 KB, 41 pages)
Study: The economic impact of Wayne State University
Read the full 71 page report
(9.1 MB PDF file, 71 pages.)
The economic impact of medical schools and teaching hospitals
What do we need to compete?
(456KB PDF file)
Overview—URC Universities
(168 KB PDF file)
“Best Places to Work in Academia 2006,” reprinted from The Scientist Magazine
(68 KB PDF file)
Taxes, Education and Median Income, from The Center for Michigan
(44 KB PDF file)
“Rising Above the Gathering Storm,” from the National Academy of Sciences
(284 KB PDF file)
The
Globally Integrated Enterprise, by Samuel Palmisano, March 2006
(112 KB PDF file, 10 pages.)
The university and the creative economy, by Richard Florida, et al.
(572 KB PDF file)
Tapping
America’s potential: The Education for Innovation Initiative
(136 KB PDF file)
A new path to prosperity, by Lou Glazer, President, Michigan Future, Inc., and Donald Grimes, U-M Institute of Labor & Industrial Relations (156KB PDF file)
Michigan Future Inc., A new agenda for a new Michigan, from Michigan Future, Inc. (1.2 MB PDF file)
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