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Michigan’s Transition to a Knowledge-based Economy: Third Annual Progress Report

Michigan’s Transition to a Knowledge-based Economy: Third Annual Progress Report

By Lou Glazer • on June 3, 2010

This is Michigan Future’s third annual report on Michigan’s transition to a knowledge-based economy. How well Michigan does in this transition will, in large part, determine whether we get more prosperous or poorer. As we detailed in our 2006 A New Agenda for a New Michigan report, Michigan’s decline is caused, in large part, because Michigan

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Lou’s New Presentation

Lou’s New Presentation

By Lou Glazer • on June 15, 2010

The following presentation is an overview of the 3rd Annual Progress update on Michigan’s transition to a knowledge-based economy. The presentations

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Young Talent in the Great Lakes: How Michigan Is Faring?

Young Talent in the Great Lakes: How Michigan Is Faring?

By Lou Glazer • on August 25, 2009

This report is part of the Michigan Future, Inc. New Agenda for a New Michigan project. Its focus is on identifying a path to better position Michigan

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A New Agenda For A New Michigan

A New Agenda For A New Michigan

By Lou Glazer • on August 25, 2009

This is a foundation report that sets the stage for our initiatives to help create a prosperous Michigan. The reality in Michigan is startling –

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Connecting Urban Poor To Work

Connecting Urban Poor To Work

By Lou Glazer • on August 25, 2009

Published in 1998 while the Michigan economy was booming, this report addressed the paradoxical issue of connecting the urban poor to work.   As we found,

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Blog Posts

It’s the Neighborhood

Lots of comments on the Andy Basile email I wrote about in my last post. Most quite positive. A few pushed back. Let me lay out my thoughts on why I thought the email was so important and then give my

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No Talent, Jobs Go Elsewhere

About a month ago I received an e mail with the title “Why our growing firm may have to leave Michigan” (you can and should read it

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Cost of Living?

One of the questions I get most often during my presentations is “what about the cost

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Constantly Changing Economy

At the core of Michigan Future’s work is the belief that globalization and technology are mega forces that are fundamentally changing the economy. That change is now a permanent feature of life.

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