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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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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. While the national average of per-capita income going to taxes is 9.9

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BUSINESS REPORT: New California Incentives Offer Credits For Job Creation

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California is considered by critics as one of the hardest states in which to grow a business, given its high individual and corporate income tax rates, high sales tax, and conflicting regulations. That’s exactly what California aims to do with a trio of tax incentive programs that begins in 2014, he said. The credit became available Jan.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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Innovative thinking, quick action and impressive regional cooperation enabled Arizona to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in creating a bold new opportunity for the First Solar site in Mesa,” Rogers said. “We Project Title: General Motors Technology Innovation Center. Photo: georgia.org.).

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Oregon Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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The updated Oregon incentives guide is brought to you by Real Street Expo , a new event sponsored by Business Facilities and Today’s Facility Manager magazines. Sparks revitalization in Oregon’s low-income communities. Delivers below-market-rate investment options to Oregon businesses.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Locations are bringing higher ed resources and high-tech businesses together to plant the seeds for market-ready advanced technology at incubators and innovation institutes, and to create the STEM-savvy workforce that will fill these new jobs. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Sooner or Later You’ll Choose Oklahoma

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The incubator program offers affordable space with flexible leases to tenants; a graduated lease package; access to a team of business experts for advice, finance counseling, marketing suggestions, accounting solutions; and a 10-year state income tax exemption.

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FEATURE STORY: A Life in Publishing – Business Facilities’ 40th Anniversary

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Ed looked at a batch of classified announcements of available commercial properties and saw the potential for a comprehensive magazine that would provide corporate site selectors everything they needed to know to make their expansion, relocation or new facilities decisions. They became our pals and they all ran ads.