Dean Joseph McDonnell discusses the impact of public-private partnerships on economic development in latest BDN article

After a yearlong competition involving 17 major universities, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced that Cornell University and its partner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, had been selected to build a graduate applied science and engineering school in the city....

While only a few cities in the world could engage in an undertaking of this scale, the project provides important lessons about economic development for other cities and states, including Maine.

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