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Building in Chicago: Embracing the US adventure and spirit

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I had originally investigated the idea of launching in Chicago in 2003, at the peak of perhaps one of the most poorly managed and executed business expansion strategies you could imagine (one for which I bear full responsibility.) I used a commission-sales recruiting service, timetohire.com to find a replacement.

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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billion in venture capital was invested in emerging regional business and 300 ICT companies announced plans to add more than 8,600 jobs in the region from 2003-2011. Austin’s 30-year software and semiconductor industry has proven to be a strong foundation for some of the newer-generation companies. In the past decade, nearly $1.8

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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The award is overseen by Ivory Innovations, a private operating foundation separate from Ivory Homes, and has vetted more than 660 entries to share an annual $200,000 purse funded by the Ivorys’ family foundation. They help run the housing commission and the home builders associations.

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Oklahoma Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Oklahoma Quality Events Program: If incremental sales taxes are greater in a community as the result of hosting a quality event, this incentive program allows the Oklahoma Tax Commission to make a payment of no more than $250,000 to the host community for eligible expenses resulting from hosting the Quality Event.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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The foundation work for the Highland turbines started last fall and should be done by the end of the year, with the turbines and the more than 650 blades set to go up by the end of 2015. A 2009 study commissioned by the State of Utah has identified 2,166 MW of geothermal potential existing with the state. The project is part of a $1.9-billion

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State by State Incentives Guide

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The allocation to each Public University which makes application shall be based on each Public University’s federally financed research and development expenditures as reported by the National Science Foundation. The Research Program. For a list of state economic development agencies, click this link. Employees must be Arkansas taxpayers.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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Applicants must meet the same qualification criteria as Advantage Arkansas and must be approved by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help attain the state’s climate change policies.

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