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One of several methods: Nine higher education institutions offering aerospace degree and certificate programs.

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Two Tech Hub designations recognize innovation arising where America began.

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As Major League Baseball’s regular season winds down like a pitch clock and pennant races wind up like a pitcher, sports team owners, communities and entire states keep taking their best swings at new stadium proposals and deals. Where do you turn to keep up?

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Earlier this summer in Paris, a quantum computing company called Pasqal announced it had achieved a technological milestone by trapping “more than 1,110 atoms within approximately 2,000 traps, demonstrating the feasibility of large-scale neutral atom quantum computing.” If that’s still a foreign language to you, you’re not alone. But Site Selection has attempted its share of quantum translating, including Mark Arend’s piece in our July 2024 issue and another piece last year on Colorado; Lindsay Lopp’s look at quantum and Argonne National Lab in Illinois; Adam Bruns’ 2017 profile of quantum activities in Waterloo, Ontario, driven by Blackberry co-founder Mike Lazaridis; Gary Daughters’ July 2023 Investment Profile of Maryland;

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Last week the National Science Foundation released new analysis of R&D investment. Among the findings: between 2000 and 2022, the amount of R&D funded by the business sector has more than doubled when measured in constant dollars (figure 4). In 2000, businesses funded $256 billion in domestic R&D, which increased 123% to an estimated $570 billion in 2022.

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Infrastructure giant Ferrovial this summer inaugurated the extension of Porto Metro’s Yellow Line in Porto, Portugal. “The project, with a budget of €99 million, has generated an average of 284 direct jobs during the 36-month construction period,” the company said. “One of the most complex parts of the project was the construction of a viaduct between Santo Ovídio and Manuel Leão stations. The metal latticework structure on piers up to 22 meters high traces a curve 420 meters long.” Due to the difficulty of erecting it with cranes from the ground, the 2,746-ton structure was slid into place from one end. “Its assembly took 143 days of work around the clock, involving 77 people,” said the company, which has been operating in Portugal for over three decades.