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2013 Boulder Economic Summit
The annual Boulder Economic Summit provides a unique opportunity for discussions on timely economic issues and connections with academic, business, and community leaders. This year’s Summit will focus on the role of research in economic growth, impact of federal funding cuts and strategic opportunities.
Boulder best for rate of women executives
February 18, 2013 – Denver Business Journal – The Boulder area has the nation’s highest ratio of women business executives to total females in the workplace, based on an analysis of Census data. The Boulder MSA has 17.7 female executives for every 1,000 women in the workplace, more than twice the national average of 8 per 1,000.
Area companies prolific at filing patents
February 1, 2013 – Boulder County Business Report – Boulder County has some of the most productive inventors and receives some of the highest amounts of government funding for innovation in the country, according to new statistics from the Brookings Institution, a national public policy group.
Region back to prerecession job levels
February 1, 2013 – Boulder County Business Report – The Boulder region is back to prerecession employment levels and wages are the highest ever, according to Richard Wobbekind, economist at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.
Ball Aerospace opens expanded Boulder facility that doubles capacity
January 25, 2013 – Daily Camera – Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. officially opened the doors Friday to a 90,000-square-foot, $75 million expansion that will allow Ball to provide a “full service operation” to its civilian and government customers. Ball’s Fisher Integration Facility in Boulder represents the culmination of 10 years of planning and will allow the company to design,…