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Read Chapter one here CHAPTER TWO I. Understanding the Green Clusters and Associated Training First, let’s review the status of two primary industry areas that will be affected by the green movement. These two industry sectors are Engineering and Construction (manufacturing will be, but manufacturing taken as a industry sector is too wide and disparate [...]

Read the introduction here CHAPTER ONE I. The Importance of the Occupational Perspective A big part of our approach thus far has been to look at green jobs through occupation data. Once we match green jobs (a.k.a. job descriptions or projects) to actual occupations we can begin to understand a much broader range of industry [...]

The US Department of Labor / Employment & Training Administration has announced the availability of approximately 20 grants of $100,000 to $500,000 to support technology-based learning  projects (PDF link). Successful grantees will need to target high-demand occupations (requiring labor market information and analysis) and demonstrate the existence of a regional partnership that brings together education [...]

Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. (EMSI) will provide crucial data, modeling, and analysis to an economic impact study of New York City’s Watershed Land Acquisition Program. The study was initiated by the Delaware County Department of Economic Development, which fears that additional acquisitions made by the program will hamper development in the region. Read on for [...]

Everyone knows that manufacturing is on the decline both nationwide and in states like Ohio, right? Well, not exactly—the story is actually much more complicated. It is true that Ohio’s manufacturing sector saw a loss of some 93,000 jobs (about 10 percent) from 2002 to 2007, even as other portions of the economy were pulling [...]

The Kauffman Foundation has released a new report on increasing entrepreneurship in the US economy. The report’s foundational assumption is that entrepreneurs have created most of the new technologies and business models that have fueled our nation’s staggering productivity growth in the past few decades. The central policy recommendations of the report are “Ensuring a [...]

Workforce3one has an informative collection of documents that summarize the lessons of Workforce Innovation Networks (WINs) — an initiative to build capacity of employer organizations (such as chambers) to serve as market-driven workforce intermediaries. Documents include: Organizing and Supporting the Employer Role in Workforce Development: A Guide for Employer Organizations Creating Community Advancement Initiatives: A [...]

The National Science Board has released a report and data tool that includes dozens of state-specific science & engineering indicators. Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) is first and foremost a volume of record comprising the major high-quality quantitative data on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. SEI is factual and policy-neutral. It does [...]

The Advisory Committee on Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy—which is backed by the Commerce department and includes leaders of industry heavyweights such as Microsoft, 3M, IBM, UPS, and Wal-Mart—has released its first report on innovation metrics. Among their recommendations are that federal agencies (Commerce, Labor, Census, IRS) step-up data sharing to improve industry [...]

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke recently gave this speech at an awards ceremony of the Charlotte, NC chamber of commerce. His remarks provide an interesting overview of the great challenges and transformations experienced by the region’s economy in recent years, including the decline of textile manufacturing and the explosive growth of professional and business services, [...]

The Times (UK) reports that research councils in the United Kingdom will now take into account the economic impact of proposed research in order to make funding decisions. While the councils say they have a broad definition of “economic impact,” many researchers are worried that potentially useful and ground-breaking research will go unfunded because it [...]

This is exciting news for the workforce investment system. Read about it here. The NFWS is a $50 million funding collaborative that aims to strengthen and expand workforce partnerships over five years. The Council on Foundations, Jobs for the Future, and The United Way of America are national strategic partners that will assist in raising [...]