Aaron M. Renn -- "The Urbanophile," a leading independent urban affairs thinker and strategist based in the Midwest, had a few compliments for Indianapolis Region economic development and clean-tech energy efforts in his blog today.
"Indianapolis is among the top performing Midwest cities on a number of measures. For example, it has the fastest population growth of any metro area over one million people and it is also among the best performers in terms of employment. It can be tempting to view this as a product of good circumstances or good luck - state capital, center of state, only large city in state, Eli Lilly, etc. And all of those are important to the city's success to be sure. But I think it misses a lot of the flat out good decisions and good execution that have contributed, particularly in the economic development space."
Renn goes on to talk about our saavy new Energy Systems Network initiative (also a sister organization of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership), citing our leadership in clean-tech energy components manufacturing potential as well as the numerous projects in the pipeline including hybrid electric batteries, "Hoosier Heavy Hybrid," and "Project Plug In."
Renn does seem to blast the trend of focusing on clusters such as life sciences and advanced manufacturing as "me too," and the Indianapolis Region certainly does its fair share of touting its business clusters. But I have a feeling Renn is directing these comments to regions that are reaching a bit too far. Surely he wouldn't fault Central Indiana for letting its visitors know that we are a bona fide, indepentently verified leader in six major fields -- life sciences, clean-tech energy, advanced manufacturing, logistics, information technology (specifically "measured marketing), and motorsports.
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"Indianapolis is among the top performing Midwest cities on a number of measures. For example, it has the fastest population growth of any metro area over one million people and it is also among the best performers in terms of employment. It can be tempting to view this as a product of good circumstances or good luck - state capital, center of state, only large city in state, Eli Lilly, etc. And all of those are important to the city's success to be sure. But I think it misses a lot of the flat out good decisions and good execution that have contributed, particularly in the economic development space."
Renn goes on to talk about our saavy new Energy Systems Network initiative (also a sister organization of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership), citing our leadership in clean-tech energy components manufacturing potential as well as the numerous projects in the pipeline including hybrid electric batteries, "Hoosier Heavy Hybrid," and "Project Plug In."
Renn does seem to blast the trend of focusing on clusters such as life sciences and advanced manufacturing as "me too," and the Indianapolis Region certainly does its fair share of touting its business clusters. But I have a feeling Renn is directing these comments to regions that are reaching a bit too far. Surely he wouldn't fault Central Indiana for letting its visitors know that we are a bona fide, indepentently verified leader in six major fields -- life sciences, clean-tech energy, advanced manufacturing, logistics, information technology (specifically "measured marketing), and motorsports.
READ THE FULL URBANOPHILE POST
LEARN MORE ABOUT CLEAN-TECH ENERGY
INDIANAPOLIS REGION CLUSTERS
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