Urban areas that attract high concentrations of educated professionals
top the ladder of success in the global marketplace. West Michigan
leaders believe the region is well positioned for continued growth in
retaining the talent already here and attracting more.
According to excerpts from the story:
It's all about the talent. Land the talent, Lou Glazer reasons, and a better tomorrow should follow.
"The
places with the highest concentration of talent on the planet win,"
says Glazer, president of the Ann Arbor-based think tank Michigan
Future Inc., who advocates a march toward a knowlege-based economy as
the only savior for auto-dependent Michigan and its withering economy.
In presenting his annual update last week across the state on how well
Michigan is doing to transition to a knowledge economy, Glazer
emphasized the effort must give top priority to preparing, attracting
and retaining a well-educated work force that becomes a magnet for
business investment.
"Talent concentration trumps everything,"
he said. "If everything else we're doing at the state and regional
level that we call economic growth or economic development works
fabulously well, and we do not increase talent concentrations, we will
get poorer."
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