Economic Development
In response to news this afternoon, Feb. 8, that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana plans to invest $131 million to consolidate its Highlander mid-size SUV production and create up to 400 jobs at its Princeton plant by 2013, here is information from experts at Indiana University Bloomington who can offer additional perspective. Arrangements can be made for live in-studio television interviews.
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The next event in the successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series on Feb. 24 will focus on the increased role of diagnostic testing in "personalized medicine" and the opportunities this presents to companies in this developing industry.
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GlobalNOC, the Global Research Network Operations Center at Indiana University, will provide premier network coordination and engineering services for the Pennsylvania Research and Education Network, or PennREN, a fiber optic cable network that will extend over 1,600 miles through 39 Pennsylvania counties.
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Beginning Thursday (Nov. 3) in Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business again will present its national, state and local economic forecasts for the coming year.
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The successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series is returning to Warsaw, Ind. -- the "Orthopedics Capital of the World" -- for the second of its 2011-12 seminars on Friday, Nov. 18. Among the presenters will be Dan Hasler, Indiana secretary of commerce and chief executive officer of the Indiana Economic Development Corp.
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Defense spending's impact on the Indiana economy has more than doubled in the past decade. More than 1,100 Hoosier companies were successful in attracting $4.4 billion in contracts from the U.S. departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) in 2010, supporting an estimated 38,600 Indiana jobs.
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