Changing Gears

Business incubators are a trumpeted, but yet unproven way to give entrepreneurs and their projects a higher chance of success. Foundations and governments…

Update, 6:30 pm:Speaking with reporters on a late afternoon conference call, UAW President Bob King says its International Executive Board followed the…

History is filled with searches for Magic Bullets.Economically speaking, those are quick-fix endeavors that promise to fix sour economies, provide jobs…

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before..."We genuinely believe small business is the backbone of America, it’s going to the key for us to be able to put…

Detroit is the latest metro area vying to become a medical destination. The hope is that its hospital systems can draw patients from outside its region,…

Three years ago, the advanced battery industry in the United States existed only in the imagination.Plenty of people believed electric cars would be the…

While we’re on the subject of magic bullets, please indulge this brief sidebar.Schisms happen. There was once a tremendous split between the (now) Roman…

History is full of the search for magic bullets, those quick tickets to jobs and economic prosperity. Cities across our region have put great hopes and…

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The Midwest’s persistently high unemployment rate isn’t expected to fall anytime soon.But as Changing Gears' Kate Davidson reported, temporary employment…