July 18 2018
General, News

President’s Message – July, 2018

  Accelerate Update Two years after announcing the Accelerate Capital Campaign, CEG continues to see new companies and regional organizations becoming investors and helping shape the Capital Region’s economy. Our newest investors are: • Bender Lane Advisory • BestPass Inc. • Black Chamber of Commerce • The Bonadio Group •

July 18 2018
Education/Training, Employment/Workforce

Capital Region STEM Degree Awards up 10% in 2017

The talent pipeline for the Capital Region’s technology sector continued to expand in 2017, with traditional colleges and universities throughout the eight counties seeing a 10.3 percent year-over-year increase in STEM degrees awarded, according to a Center for Economic Growth Analysis of new data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Database

July 18 2018
Employment/Workforce, Manufacturing

Capital Region Manufacturing Employment Reached 16-Year High in 2017

Employment in the Capital Region’s manufacturing sector last year climbed to its highest level since 2001. In 2017, the eight-county region’s manufacturers drove a 1.6 percent annual net jobs gain to an annual average of 34,322. Employment was up 7.6 percent from five years earlier, according to a Center for

July 3 2018
Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology, News

New York’s Tech Valley Makes a Major Showing in Silicon Valley

NY Nanotech Summit, Co-Organized by AIM Photonics and CMPUG, with Prominent NY Tech Pavilion, to Highlight Innovation-Based Business Growth Opportunities in New York State ALBANY, NY – SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly), in partnership with the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), The Chemical Mechanical Planarization Users Group

June 27 2018
Nanotechnology, News

Saratoga Partnership, Global Semiconductor Alliance and CEG to Present Inaugural GSA Silicon Summit – East in Saratoga Springs

October 9 event will promote collaboration to advance semiconductor technology and business, and provide unique insight to inform the regional ecosystem on growth opportunities Saratoga Springs, NY and San Jose, CA – The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership (Saratoga Partnership), the county’s designated economic development agency, the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA),

June 13 2018
Economic Analysis, General

Many Capital Region Communities Were among NY’s Fastest-Growing in 2017

Three of New York’s top 10 fastest-growing cities were in the Capital Region in 2017. Even more, on a year-over-year basis, the eight-county region also housed the state’s second and third fastest-growing towns and fastest-growing village, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau

June 13 2018
Economic Analysis, Employment/Workforce, General

Local Homeownership Rate Rises for First Time in 8 Years. What Does that Mean for the Labor Force?

The area’s homeownership rate last year rose for the first time since 2010. The uptick in this rate may provide clues to the area’s coinciding increase in its unemployment rate for the first time in six years, though economists remain divided over whether there is not only correlative but also

June 13 2018
Economic Analysis, General

Commuting Trends Highlight Growing Regionalization of the Capital Region

Residents of the Capital Region and its outlying counties are increasingly crossing county and state lines – and traveling longer – to get to work. At the same time, greater shares of workers in the region’s neighboring counties in Massachusetts and Vermont are likewise commuting across state lines. Taken together,

June 13 2018
General, News

Success Story: GLOBALFOUNDRIES and the Capital Region’s Nanotech Assets

A long-awaited economic impact study released earlier this spring reached a conclusion that by now is not surprising to many in the Capital Region. The report’s authors, a Georgetown University research professor (Charles W. Wessner) and a semiconductor industry attorney, (Thomas R. Howell), said the economic payoffs of New York’s

June 6 2018
Education/Training, Employment/Workforce, Manufacturing, News

KeyBank Foundation Awards CEG $250K to Expand MFG Training Programs at HVCC, SCCC

Media Contact James Schlett Center for Economic Growth Director of Research and Communications 518-465-8975 X221 | jamess@ceg.org CEG, partners are bridging the skills gap as Capital Region manufacturing employment reaches 16-year high ALBANY, NEW YORK – As employment in the Capital Region’s manufacturing sector climbs to a 16-year high, KeyBank

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