March 26 2018
Education/Training, News

Your Best Shot

Times Union Fun side of science On Saturday, hundreds of Capital Region students in grades four through eight participated in the annual Girls in STEM event at Hudson Valley Community College’s TEC-SMART campus in Malta. The event featured workshops designed to illustrate the fun side of science and technology. Girls

March 15 2018
Education/Training, Employment/Workforce, Manufacturing, News

Apprenticeship program designed to boost manufacturing workforce

Daily Gazette By: John Cropley Schools, economic development agencies collaborate to cut red tape COLONIE — Capital Region manufacturers having trouble finding skilled workers can now get help through a new apprenticeship program. The Center for Economic Growth is partnering with the Manufacturers Association of New York on the initiative

March 14 2018
News, Trade/Transportation

How buses can drive economic development

Times Union By: Eric Anderson Local officials embrace options for getting around When the Capital District Transportation Authority rolled out its Universal Access program, it gave employees and students at 20 major colleges and businesses the option to take any bus, any time, on the transit authority’s route network. The

March 12 2018
News, Software/Gaming/IT

Saratoga Springs video game company acquired by South Korean studio

Albany Business Review By: Chelsea Diana MadGlory, the Saratoga Springs, New York, video game company, has been acquired by PUBG Corp., a video gaming studio out of Seoul, South Korea. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Saratoga company, now known as PUBG MadGlory, was created by Brian Corrigan

March 10 2018
Employment/Workforce, General, News

Program in the works for apprenticeships

Times Union Buzz The Center for Economic Growth has been working hard to provide more workforce development programs to the region. After all, if you can’t find suitable workers for all the new jobs you create, you create problems for the companies you attract or get to grow here. One

March 9 2018
Creative/Agriculture/Food, News

Event to focus on creative economy

Times Union By: Madison Iszler   As part of a tour highlighting the state’s creative economy, the Center for Economic Growth and the Upstate Alliance for the Creative Economy will hold a roundtable Monday in Albany. The event, which will be held at 435 New Scotland Ave. from 5:30 to

March 8 2018
News

Many players join Business of Digital Games

The Record By: Lauren Halligan TROY, N.Y. >> Industry and economic leaders gathered to talk about The Business of Digital Games during a conference on Wednesday at the Tech Valley Center of Gravity. Despite the winter storm outside, more than 70 people made it to the free downtown Troy event,

March 7 2018
News

Momentum on side of local video game cluster

Times Union By: Larry Rulison Troy A new study by the Center for Economic Growth in Albany found that the Capital Region’s video game development industry has grown to 14 studios that employ 352 people, making it one of the larger sectors of the local creative economy. The study comes

March 7 2018
News

Vicarious Visions head: We need diversity in our video games, and our ranks (Video)

Albany Business Review By: Mike DeSocio and Andrew Roiter The average video gamer these days is not a boy in high school, as you might imagine – it’s a 35-year-old, and more likely to be a woman, according to the Entertainment Software Association. Jennifer Oneal is keenly aware of that,

March 6 2018
News

Capital Region’s creative economy on display during roundtable discussion

The Saratogian By: Lauren Halligan SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.>>The Spa City community joined a region-wide conversation about the creative economy this week as it rolled through the Hall of Springs on a roundtable discussion tour. More than 100 attendees came to the Monday night event, at which participants learned about the

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