Policy Events
Midwest/Great Lakes Economic Development Summit-July 17-18, 2008
CSI organized a regional economic development summit, which included Governors’ top economic development staff from the following eight Great Lakes/Upper Midwest states:
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. CSI also brought experts from CNT, CSI, MMTC, and the Keystone Research Center to provide resource support. The Summit focused on high-road economic development strategies including transit oriented transportation policy, sustainable energy resources, building on the region’s ample manufacturing base, and restructuring the region’s workforce development capacity.
The first part of the Summit focused on high-road development opportunities in the region and reports from each state of current strategies in the areas of: economic development, manufacturing, workforce development, transportation and logistics, clean technology and energy efficiency, technology commercialization and other use of universities, and revenue and subsidy policy. The second day was devoted to formulating joint strategy going forward, with potential items for collaboration (developed out of the first day’s discussions) revised and deepened through CSI-facilitated breakout sessions, and then approved in plenary session. By the end, the assembled state delegations had unanimously approved roughly two-dozen specific items of collaboration which they agreed to take to their respective Governors for approval. CSI has been asked to oversee the follow-up to this agreement, which is unprecedented.
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Midwest/Great Lakes Economic Development Summit Discussion
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