Joseph Cortright
is an economist with Impresa, Inc., andprincipal investigator for the New EconomyObservatory of Portland State University’s Institutefor Portland Metropolitan Studies.
Heike Mayer
is agraduate research assistant with the Observatory anda Ph.D. candidate in the University’s College of Urban and PublicAffairs. Cortright and Mayer also wrote
“High Tech Specialization: A Comparison of High Technology Centers,”
published by The Brookings InstitutionCenter on Urban and Metropolitan Policy in January 2001.
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