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BUSINESS REPORT: Texas – Innovation Moves Front And Center In Austin

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Technology shares the spotlight with music and film at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX. Technology innovation is happening across the country, but there is no better place to witness the revolution other than Austin, TX, home to a rapidly expanding technology industry. By Jenny Vickers. TEXAS FAST FACTS.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

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Innovation and learning in complex offshore construction projects. Mobilizing the partnering process. Partnering: An Innovative and Effective Project Organization Concept. success through an incentive agreement: lessons learned from an underground railway. University of Texas at Austin, August 1989. 2000, August).

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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

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It provides a capacity for on-demand construction via an on-call contractor that can be mobilized, working in a much shorter period, and far more efficiently than traditional project delivery methods. Disaster Debris Removal Monitoring 32 Services Agreement, Exhibit A, Scope of Services. The Advantages of JOC. REFERENCES. Menches, C.

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Race to a Smart Future

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metro to fully integrate innovative technologies—self-driving cars, connected vehicles and smart sensors, among other advances—into its transportation network. With an open platform, the city would create new uses for different modes of transportation, improve safety information and boost mobility options for underserved neighborhoods.

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

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However, technology companies are realizing that to be truly global, they need to tap innovation at more locations and in new high-growth markets. The company, which develops software applications for mobile platforms, opened its R&D center in southwestern Pennsylvania in 2010. Smith Micro has received $1.8

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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Louisiana’s capital has had great success in executing the state’s strategy of bringing together business and higher education in innovative public-private partnerships that spur initiatives in new high-growth sectors. AIRBUS: POWERFUL ENGINE FOR GROWTH IN MOBILE REGION. Bobby Jindal said at the announcement of the IBM project.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Austin, TX: On Top, Still Rising. For the past couple of years, Austin, TX and Baton Rouge, LA have been duking it out for the top ranking in our flagship metro Economic Growth Potential category. Austin is now one of the nation’s top emerging high-tech cities, with more than 120,000 people employed by around 4,400 technology firms.

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