What Shortage? Microsoft Trims 18,000 Employees
Like manufacturing before it, the Innovation Economy has reached a turning point, with jobs moving to places where labor is cheaper.
Innovation Economy
Ironic Demographics: The Higher Education Bubble
Demographic decline is shrinking the pool of applicants for all but a handful of global superbrands, 80 percent of which are located in the United States.
Seattle Is Dying: Boeing Looks Outside Washington for Cheap Talent
With a diversified employment base, the Emerald City will survive as Boeing starts looking for new talent outside of Washington State. But what does the search for cheap STEM talent say about the Innovation Economy?
Bright Flight From Silicon Valley: The Rent Is Too Damn High
Talented people are starting to move to places where the cost of living is more reasonable, but a town can't just be cheap and wonderful. It also has to be connected.
Silicon Rust
Silicon Shore. Silicon Beach. Silicon Roundabout. How many different technology hubs can we have? Like the untethering of manufacturing from regional natural resources that crushed the Rust Belt, Silicon Valley's one-time advantage of a high concentration of venture capitalists matters less and less as the cost of technology falls.
Happy H-1B Visa Day
Is the Big Tech lobbying effort for immigration reform just a ruse to keep wages low?
Talent Is the New Oil: OPEC of Tech
Silicon Valley and Chesapeake Energy face the same problem: the cost of extraction. The technology industry needs to get smarter about workforce development, and fast.
Everyone Is Starved for Talent, but Migration Is a Thing of the Past
What happens when a place is no longer able to attract more people?
Why the United States Will Rule the Legacy Economy
Talent is the new oil, and our universities—talent production facilities—are the best in the world.
A Second American Century
The United States will continue to lead the world as it shifts to a Legacy Economy, but only some cities will play a role in that.
Germany's Demographic Bust: On a Shrinking Population
The population is shrinking and German companies need talent, but the country has always had a strained relationship with immigrants.
Silicon Valley Decline
Entire regional economies depend on the influx of talent. Without immigration, even the home to the world's largest technology companies would be suffering.