Tennessee's Business: Innovation

http://capone.mtsu.edu/berc/tennbusiness.html 

Tennessee's Business, published by the Business and Economic Research Center, celebrates innovation in its latest issue, based on the MTSU University Honors College spring lecture series. Topics include 

• alternative fuel for commuting (by Cliff Ricketts),
• the challenges of a global economy (by Pete Barile), 
• the impact of technology on society (by H. Lee Martin), and
• finding your leadership strengths (by Deana Raffo, Department of Management and Marketing).

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Planning in Middle Tennessee

Tennessee's Business

http://capone.mtsu.edu/berc/tennbusiness.html 

Tennessee's Business magazine on planning in middle Tennessee features articles on Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, and Williamson counties as well as the city of Columbia. Cumberland Region Tomorrow articles explain collaborative planning efforts in the region.

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Comparison of Tennesseans' Income Based on Education

How much difference does a college degree make to an average Tennessean's income? Find out in this table: American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates [pdf] .

It's just one of many articles in Tennessee's Business: Job Creation [contents].

Features include:

• "Business Creations and Expansions, 2009,"
  an overview of the latest data and comparison to the 2001-2002 recession, by Tennessee State Data Center Director Randy Gustafson
• "Job Creation: What Really Works?"
  by David Hayes, MTSU Department of Economics and Finance adjunct faculty and Tennessee Workforce Development Board member

and more:

• Tennessee State Small Business Development Center's
  2011 results
• Tennessee green investments,
  an economic impact study on selected summarized by BERC Associate Director Murat Arik
• Tracking the state's economic recovery
  by staff of MTSU's Business and Economic Research Center and the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• State job creation initiatives, an overview

plus:

• American Community Survey 1-year employment estimates in pdf format

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