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The ubiquitous nature of data today is changing the game for companies making location decisions and the communities and organizations seeking to recruit them. A panel of economic development experts explained how on Wednesday at the inaugural Data4Decision Conference and Exposition in Raleigh, hosted by my organization with regional partners. Research has always been part of economic development, but we are shifting to a time when economic developers are taking data – research, numbers – and using it in a way that solves a problem for the company or offers a solution for them. Site selection consultants used to...

Editor’s note: Lee Anne Nance, executive vice president for the Research Triangle Regional Partnership, recently was named as a leader of the FDI Frontlines Coalition, a national organization focused on arming state, regional and local economic development organizations with the resources they need to attract more foreign direct investment. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Medical teams at Rex Healthcare must now manually log the temperature of all of its lab refrigerators every hour of every day to ensure precious samples are not lost to a power outage. New refrigerators installed this summer by regional startup Phononic will contain novel semiconductor cooling technology...

Editor’s note: Lee Anne Nance is executive vice president of Research Triangle Regional Partnership. She recently spoke at the Global South Summit about the success of the Research Triangle area. WRALTechWire asked Ms. Nance to provide her remarks so they could be shared with readers. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - The Research Triangle Region’s cluster-based approach to job growth and business development is a proven winner. Since July 2009, when we launched our “Shape of Things to Come” strategic plan, new jobs and economic investment arriving here through business expansions and relocations have been closely linked to our 11 target...

Editor’s note: This article is the third of a three-part series on the Research Triangle Region’s cleantech cluster written exclusively for WRAHTechWire. Today’s post showcases some of the regional companies producing innovations that are shaping a sustainable future. It was written be Lee Anne Nance, senior vice president for Strategic Initiatives at the Research Triangle Regional Partnership and Managing Director of the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - What do you get when you combine swine manure with heat and pressure? A team from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University gets “PiGrid,” glue that holds asphalt...