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Mayor Ron Littlefield boasts that Chattanooga is the most transformed city in America.http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/may/04/past-learning-future-plans/?news

Perhaps the only silver lining to the Great Recession is that it triggered a new focus on manufacturing in the United States. After 25 years of being sold a shiny vision of a service-dominated post-industrial economy, the U.S. is rediscovering how important it is to actually make things in order to spur innovation, raise wages,…

With the economy still reeling from the effects of the recession, metropolitan areas have become increasingly willing to explore new approaches to economic development. Moving away from traditional one-size-fits-all approaches that emphasized Starbucks, stadium-building, and stealing businesses, metro leaders are instead crafting metropolitan business plans that grow jobs from within, building on their distinct market…

New York City has long been known as a hub of innovation and opportunity, a place where creativity and sheer force of will can produce achievements previously unimagined. Companies that have changed how we experience the world—from Alexander Graham Bell’s Bell Laboratories to Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records—all got their start in the city that never sleeps.http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2012/01/17-new-york-innovation-katz-rodin

In the absence of federal leadership on the economy, a new wave of innovation in economic development is emerging at the state and regional scale. New York State, under the leadership of Governor Andrew Cuomo, is at the vanguard of this encouraging movement.http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2011/12/13-new-york-economy-katz

The astonishing boom in American shale gas production continues to change everything — perceptions of fuel abundance and scarcity, projections of the U.S. energy mix, and the price environment for renewables.http://www.brookings.edu/up-front/posts/2011/12/06-energy-muro

When it comes to design, there’s no question that Apple knows how to impress.http://www.brookings.edu/up-front/posts/2011/06/24-apple-location-puentes

The recovery from the Great Recession is taking much longer than most forecasters expected. With the benefit of hindsight, perhaps it is not surprising that it is taking a long time to overcome the massive slump in real estate and the accompanying loss of household wealth. Consumers are still holding too much debt, are worried…

The solution to the nation’s long-term deficit problem is generally portrayed as a choice among sharp budget cuts, major tax increases or a combination of the two. Given the magnitude of the problem, some level of sacrifice is probably unavoidable. But there is a third, overlooked approach to major budget savings — innovation — that…

In times of fiscal crisis, state and local governments often give infrastructure investments short shrift, based on the assumption that any major expenditure is simply too costly for tight budgets to bear. The trouble with this short-term logic is that it creates much larger expenses in the long run.http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2012/01/19-michigan-innovation-katz-rodin