Building inclusive regional economies through federal investments

Brookings Metro is helping fuel a new generation of investments in inclusive innovation and talent development by chronicling and informing the implementation of programs such as the Economic Development Administration’s Build Back Better Regional Challenge, the Commerce Department’s CHIPS for America Fund and Regional Technology and Innovation Hub program, and the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA downtown city skyline at twilight.

Cities & Communities How Regional Technology Hubs can advance inclusive innovation

Mayu Takeuchi, Joseph Parilla

June 17, 2024

Louisville, Kentucky, USA February 25, 2023 The parking lot and buildings in the Clairborne Crossing apartment complex on a sunny winter day

Cities & Communities How U.S. cities are using federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to tackle housing affordability

Glencora Haskins, Julia Bauer, Mayu Takeuchi, Patrick Rochford, Joseph Parilla

June 11, 2024

In addition to classroom work, participants worked an active Solar Holler installation (Credit: Coalfield Development)

Economic Development Seizing the moment for place-based economic policy

Joseph Parilla, Glencora Haskins, Mark Muro

May 21, 2024

Inside ATLAS, the Advanced Technologies Lab for Aerospace Systems, Sector E, at one of the National Institute for Aviation Research’s laboratory spaces at Wichita State University.

Economic Development Expanding South Kansas’ aerospace cluster into a resilient advanced manufacturing sector

Robert Maxim

May 21, 2024

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