| PRIE conducts research of planning and public policy interest on the intersection between industries and occupations, on one hand, and regions, cities and communities, on the other. Each project involves a team of faculty and students and disseminates results through scholarly publications, the popular press, and person-to-person outreach to parties directly concerned.
PRIE's Arts Economy Initiative conducts major studies on artists and cultural industries, researching the intersection between cultural and urban/regional development policy. Other current projects include The Distinctive City, a book stressing labor and human capital, combining occupational with industrial analysis, and developing guidelines for building distinctive city and regional development portfolios.
Past projects include Reining in the Competition for Capital, a critical look at tax incentives as economic development policy; many books and studies of the defense industry and its impacts on local, national, and international levels; Second Tier Cities, a comparative analysis of industrial districts in fast-growing cities in the US, Japan, Brazil, and South Korea; and Trading Industries, Trading Regions, a study of trade-related development across US regions and cities. |
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Ann Markusen is the director of PRIE. Her research focuses on industrial and occupational approaches to regional development and on arts and culture, high-tech, and defense as regional economic stimulants, both in the US and abroad. |
| THE DISTINCTIVE CITY: AN OCCUPATIONAL APPROACH
In an era of heightened competition and capital and labor mobility, city and regional leaders seek to build distinctive identities and portfolios of production and consumption activities to hedge against decline in traditional strengths. PRIE is pioneering an occupational approach to economic development strategy and analysis that focuses on worker as well as firm location choices, entrepreneurship, and the consumption sector as key to longer term growth.
Read "Consumption-Driven Urban Development"
PUBLICATIONS
Read published and working papers, books and special issues, journal articles, chapters in books, research reports, short articles, and op eds by Ann Markusen. |
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REINING IN THE COMPETITION FOR CAPITAL
Regions and localities all over the globe are facing increasingly stiff competition for capital to build new plants and offices and provide jobs.
Finding a workable solution to this dilemma was the focus of 'Reining in Competition for Capital,' a two-day signature study conference held at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute February 27-28, 2004.
Read the press release for the resultant volume, Reining in the Compeition for Capital (2007), published by W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Order book.
Ongoing PRIE research on business tax incentives includes a case study of film incentives. |
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ARTS ECONOMY INITIATIVE
The Arts Economy Initiative is a ten-year project on artists, their livelihoods and their contributions to regional and local economies.
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