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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda. When Clark Ivory returned with his family to Salt Lake City from a three-year church mission in the eastern European countries of Moldova and Romania in 2017, he could have easily allowed Ivory Homes, the company founded by his father, Ellis, almost 50 years earlier, to continue without him.

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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From the July/August 2017 Issue. P83 Innovation Center campus conceptual renderings. Feeding this worker pipeline is Arizona’s university system that produces in-demand graduates specializing in technology and innovation that can quickly make an impact on these growing businesses. By the BF Staff. City of Peoria). In 2016, U.S.

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Maryland: Green Energy Institute Brings Innovation To Market

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From the September/October 2017 Issue. James Clark School of Engineering and the Maryland Clean Energy Center (MCEC)—will be to develop and attract private investment and commercialize clean energy innovations and deployment solutions in Maryland. Larry Hogan’s 2017 environmental agenda, which the governor unveiled in January.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An OPPORTUNITY ZONES ARE HERE. Louisiana, no.

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Iowa: Moving To The Top Of The Class

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From the September/October 2017 Issue. This high achievement level is one reason a 2017 Chief Executive survey of CEOs placed Iowa second in the nation in worker quality. The latest innovation emerging from Iowa is transforming the chemical business from one based on oil to one based upon bioproducts. By the BF Staff.

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Industry Focus: Aerospace Sector Is Flying High Again

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A fter several years of job losses, aerospace and defense sector employment is expected to grow in 2016 by more than 39,000 jobs in the U.S., Aerospace & Defense Labor Market Study. percent, of which about 185,000 jobs were lost in the defense subsector. Aerospace and defense sector companies paid $7.7 Tax Foundation.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Alabama Innovation Fund: As part of the implementation of Accelerate Alabama, this fund was created to maximize the use of the State’s economic development resources by leveraging annual research and development expenditures by Public Universities within the State to generate resources which can be used to support economic development initiatives.

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