Iowa Community Colleges, August 2006
Joe Cortright's presentation to the Iowa Association of Community College Trustees Conference, Mason City, Iowa, July 27, 2006 Download the 7.3 MB powerpoint file: The Global Economy and Regionalization
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Address to the Portland City Club, January 7, 2005 Joe Cortright and State Economist Tom Potiowsky were the featured speakers for the City Club of Portland's annual economic outlook meeting. Joe's remarks addressed the structure of the metropolitan economy, its performance through the recent economic cycle, and the key factors that will shape regional prosperity in the years ahead.
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Oregon-Washington APA Conference, October 2004
Joe Cortright's presentation to the Oregon Washington APA Conference in Portland, October 5, 2004. Download the 4.4 MB powerpoint file: Prospering in a Knowledge Economy.
- Links to Current Project Presentations
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Signs of Life: Our widely quoted report on biotechnology in US metropolitan areas, co-authored by Joe Cortright & Heike Mayer, was released by the Brookings Institution in June. You can find the report and our powerpoint presentation at the Brookings Center for Urban and Metropolitan Policy. (If you're looking for Joe's presentation in Washington, Toronto, Oakland, Minneapolis or Vancouver, this is the file you want).
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Oregon Business Plan: We've been working closely with the Oregon Business Council and businesses around the state to formulate the Oregon Business Plan. Joe Cortright's presentations from the Medford, Eugene and Portland regional meetings are available at the project website: www.OregonBusinessPlan.org.
- Here are some of recent presentations developed by Impresa. You can left click on the link to view the presentation in your browser or right click and select "save to file" to download it to your computer.
- 21st Century Economic Strategy
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We've always pictured our economy as an extension of the natural landscape. While this may be an accurate picture of our economic past, our economic future is being shaped by a different landscape--the landscape of knowledge--with its own nuances. Joe Cortright's Keynote Address to the Tenth Annual Challenge of Change Conference in Eugene summarizes how the world has changed, and what communities, businesses and workers can do to adapt--and prosper.
(Download or View 1.5 MB Powerpoint File) - Transportation, Industrial Location and the New Economy
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How will the emergence of the Internet and other technologies change patterns of economic activity and the demand for transportation, particularly freight transportation? These questions are addressed in Joe Cortright's remarks to the Roundtable on "E-Freight: Metropolitan Implications," held in Portland on March 8 and 9, 2001. This presentation summarizes the key conclusions of a paper commissioned by the Port of Portland for the Roundtable. (Download or View 230 KB Adobe Acrobat File)