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Stay up-to-date on business and economic development happenings in the Capital Region with the CEG Economic Development Week in Review. Don’t miss out on the developments that are transforming the region by following us on: CEG IN THE NEWS Business Review: The region’s video gaming community has grown to 400
Even before New York State designated 20 Capital Census Tracts as Opportunity Zones in 2018, half of them had growing populations and four in five had increasing ranks of employed residents. The federal Opportunity Zones community development program is now promising to build on that momentum and is already attracting
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Times Union By: Larry Rulison Albany – The Capital Region’s share of U.S. semiconductor device development increased in 2018, according to the latest patent analysis by the Center for Economic Growth. In 2018, Capital Region scientists were issued 1,302 semiconductor-device patents, out of 25,170 issued nationwide, which is a 5.2
For the Top Economic Development News of the Month, CEG selects news articles about projects or developments that promise to improve and/or transform the Capital Region’s economy, particularly those that related to manufacturing and initiatives outlined in, Capital 20.20, a five-year, multi-pronged plan for bringing economic prosperity to the entire
Capital Region inventors continued to increase their share of semiconductor device-related patents issued nationwide in 2018. Last year, 1,302 of the total 25,170 semiconductor device-related patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) listed a Capital Region inventor. That means that 5.2 percent of all U.S. semiconductor innovation
In 2018, the Capital Region had its fewest number of unemployed workers in 17 years. The eight-county region averaged 21,800 unemployed workers last year – 48 percent below the peak level of unemployment in 2010, according to New York State Department of Labor data. That stark decline, however, does not
Times Union By: Diego Mendoza-Moyers The Capital Region saw a significant jump in funding for biotech research last year from the National Institutes of Health — an increase that has allowed several local research projects to flourish into 2019, according to the Albany-based Center for Economic Growth, a regional economic development
According to the latest federal statistics on the gross domestic product of U.S. counties, the Capital Region has the third highest per capita GDP in the New York and has the state’s third fastest-growing GDP. Regional GDP The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), which measures and reports on the
