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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 TX, VA LEAD CYBER CONTENDERS. Louisiana, no. territories. installed 10.6

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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The jobs will be in engineering, user-interface design and other high-paying careers in building software and making apps. If you seek a STEM job or a design job once you graduate from college you have a real chance of having your student debt relieved.”. GE’s Digital Division will employ hundreds of people in the coming years.

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Cover Story: Global Biotech Report

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It develops innovative software that unlocks the value of healthcare data for the benefit of patients. The goal is to provide a software solution to the NHS and the commercial sector and manage data for over 700 million patient events. The unique set of circumstances has attracted a lot of interest,” Gibson says.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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focused on mobile, security and business operations software). You read that right—here are two examples, both recently reported by UtilityDIVE: Power industry hardware and software vendors are gearing up to offer cloud-based smart-grid technology solutions, generically known in the industry as Smart Grid as a Service (SGaaS).

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State by State Incentives Guide

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million loan participation program fostering business expansion and job creation in Arizona by providing debt financing for small businesses (in collaboration with private finance partners). For 2018 and thereafter, the tax credit rates will be 20% of the first $2.5 97% increase in personal property tax exemption.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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Loan proceeds are to be used for working capital, inventory, equipment purchase, and real property improvements but cannot be used for refinancing of existing debt or outstanding debt payments. This includes property such as microscopes, chemical reagents, and software. The program ends December 2016.

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