Collaborative Academic Centers and Institutes in NEO

Inventory of Collaborations at NEO public universities
These are the collaborations among the publics

Northeastern Ohio Consortium of Biopreparedness - Kent State , NEOUCOM, Akron, YSU, CSU, Case, Summa Health Care System, Steris Corporation, EnviroChipx, LLC, GOJO, the 910th Airlift Wing Command, and the Kent City School District.

Northeast Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program - B-W, Hiram, Lake Erie College, Oberlin, Wooster

Entrepreneurship Education Consortium - Ashland, B-W, Case, CSU, JCU, Kent State, Akron

Innovation Alliance - Akron and LCCC - interesting and listed here because they are actively looking for partners

Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM) - Kent State, Akron, Case

The Advance Northeast Ohio Action Plan

The link below offers a lot of insight into the foreward thinking, regional focus of economic development in NEO.

Our Action Plan
Advance Northeast Ohio, the region's economic action plan, unites our 16-county region to accelerate positive changes that create jobs, increase incomes and reduce poverty. Launched in 2007, more than 80 organizations, institutions and leaders from business, philanthropy, government and the civic arena are united behind this movement to strengthen the economic competitiveness of Northeast Ohio.

Growth in NEO from 2005-2006

The report that I have linked below is useful for thinking about the importance of technology in colleges that prepare graduates for the Northeast Ohio workforce. We are well situated in terms of our healthcare offerings, management offerings and educational services. However, because technology is forecasted to be the backbone of our future economy, technological training in institutions serving Northeast Ohio residents - the people who do not intend to leave the region upon graduation - needs to be a major concern.

The Northeast Ohio Economic Brief from 2007 has some important findings:

• Between 2005 and 2006, nine sectors in NEO accelerated their job growth compared to the previous year. Important sectors that moved from a negative to a positive growth rate within this time period include Educational Services, Information, and Management of Companies and Enterprises.
• The three sectors that added the highest number of jobs were Health Care and Social Assistance (9,200 jobs), Administrative and Support Services (8,500), and Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (4,900).
• The fastest growing sectors in NEO with at least $4 billion in gross product were Transportation and Warehousing (16%), Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (10%), and Information (8%)
• Employment in NEO grew faster than the state but slower than the U.S. in the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services sector, an important sector in a region seeking to transition to a technology based economy.