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Lou Glazer’s interview on Stateside: Higher education at the core of Michigan’s revival
President Lou Glazer sat down with Cynthia Canty of Michigan Radio’s Stateside to discuss why globalization and technology are more powerful in creating a new Michigan than politics or policy. Listen to the full story here.
Lou’s New Presentation
The below presentation includes updated data on the most and least prosperous states and identifies the characteristics of the states with the most successful economies. Together they make the case for a new Michigan. The presentation concludes with our new agenda: what Michigan needs to do to become one of the states with the most successful economies.
Michigan’s Transition to a Knowledge-Based Economy: Fifth Annual Progress Report
Michigan continues to have difficulty transitioning to a knowledge based economy which has led to Michigan getting poorer compared to the country. In Michigan Future’s fifth annual report on Michigan’s transition, Lou Glazer and Don Grimes detail which states and metropolitan areas are doing the best and why. To read the press release, click here.
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Appendix A1: General data on each state
Appendix A2: Per capita income component data for each state
Appendix A3: Change in per capita income components for each state
Appendix B1: Date on large metropolitan areas (population 1 million or more)
Appendix B2: Data on smaller Michigan and comparable Midwest metro areas
Appendix B3: Data on per capita income components for large metro areas
Appendix B4: Change in per capita income components for large metro area
Appendix B5: Components of transfer payments change 1990-2010, large and Michigan metro areas
See past reports, here.
Detroit parents as school shoppers
From its inception Michigan Future Schools understood that the schools it invests in need to be good at operations, academics and student recruitment. All three matter. That in addition to financial support, MFS needed to help the schools it invests in build the capacity to be first rate in all three areas.When it came to designing student recruitment assistance, we found that no one had done the basic research on how Detroit parents chose the schools they enrolled their children in. When we looked nationally for that kind of research, we couldn’t find it either.
That is the genesis of this report: Doing the basic research to better understand Detroit parents as shoppers for k-12 schools. Given the absence of this basic research, we decided to focus on all students, not just high school students. The resulting report provides a descriptive profile of the school shopping behavior of 1,073 Detroit households with 1,699 school-age children. Based on doorstep interviews and focus group discussions with these families, the report represents one of the most comprehensive and aggressive attempts nationally to answer important questions about how parents, especially low-wealth families, think about and pursue school options within a major urban setting. The report also provides rich descriptions of how four different school shopper types approach the school search and selection process.
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NEW: Click to read the summary of findings from the Detroit Parents as Shoppers study here
Paul Hillegonds: The Next Fifty Years in Michigan
Paul Hillegonds – Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, DTE Energy and Board member, Michigan Future, Inc. – in celebration of Grand Valley State University’s 50th Anniversary was asked to deliver an address on what the next 50 years holds for Michigan. The speech builds on the work of Michigan Future. In it Paul describes his vision on where the state should head and what we need to do to realize that vision. The speech provides a road map for what really matters to position the state and its citizens for future success.
Young Talent in the Great Lakes: How Michigan Is Faring?
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 to succeed in the flattening world economy of the future, a path that will return Michigan to high prosperity, measured by per capita income consistently above the national average in both national economic expansions and contractions.
Our basic conclusion: What most distinguishes successful areas from Michigan is their concentrations of talent, where talent is defined as a combination of knowledge, creativity and entrepreneurship. Quite simply, in a flattening world, the places with the greatest concentrations of talent win! States and regions without concentrations of talent will have great difficulty retaining or attracting knowledge-based enterprises, and they are not likely to be the places where new knowledge-based enterprises are created.
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Lou’s 4th annual progress report presentation
Michigan’s Transition to a Knowledge-based Economy: Fourth Annual Progress Report
Michigan’s Transition to a Knowledge-based Economy: Fourth Annual Progress Report
May 2012
This is Michigan Future’s 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 – its citizens, enterprises and communities – has been slow to adapt to a rapidly changing global economy. Today, leading-edge communities are leaving behind the Industrial Age. They are adapting quicker and better to a more knowledge-driven and entrepreneurial economy: the flat world.
This report details what has happened to the national and state economy over the past decade. As well as details on what states and metropolitan areas are doing the best and why.
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Click here for the executive summary
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Michigan Future Inc. has been providing high quality research publications to inform Michigan policymakers and the general public for nearly twenty years. Our research focuses on helping Michigan succeed in a knowledge-based economy and has themes that relate to the Michigan Economy, Attracting and Retaining Talent, and Preparing Talent.
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