Posts Tagged ‘IASP’

Sabine Vollmer

Mapping RTP's future

Sunday, May 31, 2009, 4:40 pm By No Comments | Post a Comment

Science and innovation will continue to drive economic development in the next 20 years, but where the new jobs will spring up is not as clear.

The Internet is emphasizing how researchers work over where they work. To solve scientific puzzles increasingly requires more than one researcher, one lab, or one organization. And in the global recession government is trading places with industry in stepping up investment in research and development.

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Sabine Vollmer

Science jobs: Where are they going?

Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 10:15 am By No Comments | Post a Comment

Are science jobs about to go the way manufacturing jobs have gone for years, which is to countries with lower labor costs?

It’s a question that more than 700 economic developers, economists, scientists, investors and business executives from around the world will explore at the three-day International Association of Science Parks conference that starts June 1 at the Raleigh Convention Center.

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