Media Coverage - Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission / Metro Orlando EDC

Below is a small sampling of media coverage on Metro Orlando’s business community..

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	Military Training Technology October 11, 2007	NCS Heading M&S Charge	Orlando, Fla. has long been the hub for military-based simulation technology activity, anchored by the training system procurement commands of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.

	The New York Times September 6, 2007	What Do Young Jobseekers Want? (Something Other Than the Job)	Early this summer, Joshua J. Pelton decided that he was meant to live in Orlando, Fla. So he quit his sales job in Detroit, packed his car with all the belongings that fit, put the rest in storage, and drove southeast daydreaming about sundrenched winters and packed nightclubs.

	Success in Seminole August 2007	Center for Economic Development - SCC's new Heathrow Location	In Seminole Community College's new "Center for Economic Development" at Heathrow, the college has brought together the regional economic development commission agencies, the business community, the chambers of commerce and high-tech partners in a singular, visionary center where, side-by-side, partnerships and strategic visions can flourish.

	TechJournal South July 9, 2007	BioOrlando launch highlights growing tech hub	Think Orlando and you’re likely to conjure images of Disney World, theme parks, palm trees and golf courses. But behind the scenes, the city has quietly created a $15 billion technology industry, including a growing life science cluster.

	Business Week June 4, 2007	Is This Really The Next Big Thing?	In 2003, a year after leaving his post as CEO of Time Warner Inc.'s (TWX ) AOL unit, Barry M. Schuler got a rare opportunity: He was invited to tour the Defense Sciences Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which was recruiting entrepreneurs to help commercialize new technologies of interest to the Pentagon.

	Florida Trend April 2007	Economic Yearbook A New Spirit	Economic Growth: Metro Orlando has been named a top 10 "geek mecca" by Wired magazine.

	Business Xpansion Journal April 2007	Simplicity Means Everything - Pockets of Biosciences' Innovtions are Booming Throughout the Country.	At the end of the day, consumers want simplicity in their health care therapies. ... Biosciences firms have received this message.

	Business 2.0 May 2007	The Best Jobs in the Hottest Markets	The great American hiring boom is slowing down — but as labor cools with the rest of the economy, a few choice regions will stay red-hot. You just have to know where to look.

	Southern Business & Development Winter 2007	Top 10 Places in the South for Emerging Growth Industries	Communities all across the South are building on their assets to attract emerging growth industries such as information technology, semiconductor, life sciences, and numerous others.

	Expansion Management April 12, 2007	Expanding Biotech Companies Have a Myriad of Choices for Site Location Projects	Every state in the country — and most cities and regions in those states — have some type of program aimed at attracting biotechnology and life sciences companies.

	The New York Times April 1, 2007	36 Hours Orlando, Fla	ORLANDO may be America’s most misunderstood city. Although it’s best known as the home of Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and other theme parks, those attractions have little to do with the brick-lined streets, mossy parks or natural lakefronts that make up the city’s historic downtown.

	TechJournal South February 2007	Spotlight: Orlando The Light Fantastic in Central Florida	One day communications will travel on multi-colored beams of laser light delivering data, video, and the Internet at a terra bit–one trillion pieces of information–per second.

	Expansion Management February 18, 2007	2007 America's 50 Hottest Cities: Perception Is a Critical Factor in Attracting Expanding Companies	Companies that are contemplating an expansion or relocation of their manufacturing facility, headquarters or back office operations have a certain set of criteria they use to make the most informed decision possible.

	Wired magazine January 2007	Best Geek Cities!	Using highly scientific methodology as well as algorithms snuck out of NASA and Google, we analyzed cities across the U.S. to find the Top 10 Places to get your geek on.

	FederalTimes.com November 3, 2006	From Dirt Roads to Disney World	Up until the late 1950s, cattle ranches, citrus groves and rustic dirt roads dominated Orlando and outlying counties in Central Florida. That was then.

	GameCareer Guide.com November 2006	Student Postmortem: Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy's The Blob	Want to make a game industry pro laugh? Tell them you're going to design and create a fully functional 3-D video game with a 12-person team in about four months.

	National Real Estate Investor August 2006	Technology Triumph	When an unknown buyer began taking options on swampland south and west of Orlando in 1964, some speculators figured on an expansion of the Glenn L. Martin Co. missile plant.

	BusinessWeek August 21/28, 2006	Pushing for Growth: How Cities Succeed	Even with globalization, location still matters in economic competition. But it is more important than ever for communities to offer distinctive advantages.

	eWEEK June 2006	Beyond the Valley: 10 Blooming U.S. Cities for Tech	eWEEK editorial scoured dozens of news stories, job reports and technology forecasts, crunched them all together with a dash of insight, and came up with the following 10 cities and their surrounding areas.

	Fortune August 17, 2005	Secret Capitals of Small Business	Most business capitals shout their names from the hilltops—literally, in the case of Hollywood.

	St. Petersburg Times August 10, 2005	Orlando evolving to video game hub	In the brute force economics of mass-scale entertainment, it seems unfair to pit such Walt Disney second-tier films as Bambi 2, Brother Bear 2 and Cinderella 3 against this week's brawling debut of Electronic Arts' powerhouse video game Madden NFL 06.

	managementfirst.com June 2005	An interview with Ray Gilley	As CEO, you oversee the operations of a $5.7 million regional organization. Can you tell us a little about the objectives behind the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission and your day-to-day duties?

	Florida Trend April 2005	Digital Upgrade	Although Orlando lost a big-money bid last year for the California-based Scripps Research Institute, which is developing a satellite facility in West Palm Beach instead, Central Florida is succeeding at luring other high-wage employers—so much so that the region's average annual pay rate is increasing, says Ray Gilley, president of the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission, which represents Orange, Seminole, Lake and Osceola counties.

	go (airTran's inflight magazine) April/May 2005	A Magic Kingdom for Entrepreneurs	Three decades after Walt Disney established his empire here in 1971, a ripple effect has spread through Orlando, creating an ever-growing entrepreneurial hotspot.

	CBS News February 8, 2005	Military Using Video Games	Video games are increasingly used as teaching tools, and even the U.S. Military is taking up the theory that games can sharpen, rather than rot, the mind. Mark Strassmann reports on digital combat.

	National Real Estate Investor January 2005	Orlando Diversifies and Prospers	Beyond tourism, the regional economy is benefiting from a burgeoning high-tech corridor and downtown investment.

	Financial Times January 12, 2005	Game for an education	Where do video games come from? Or, more precisely, where will the next generation of video game developers come from?

	University of Central Florida September 2004	New Academy to Train Next Generation of Interactive Entertainment Industry	Launching in fall 2005 with help from Electronic Arts, the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy at the University of Central Florida (UCF) will train students in the design and programming of video games and many forms of interactive entertainment.

	Business Xpansion Journal May 1, 2004	The Vroom in the Prairie's Boom	Corporations continue to discover the multiple advantages of sitting in rural areas and small towns.

	Fast Company May 2004	The Toll of a New Machine	First it was ATMs. Then gas pumps. Now we check ourselves in at airports and even punch up our own fast-food orders. Dowen't anybody work here anymore?

	Pegasus magazine May/June 2004	Agrotechnology Industry Blossoms	Crushing plans and vegetables in a high-tech extraction process for their juices. Cloning soil-less plants in a clean room environment.

	Pegasus magazine March/April 2004	What is Entertainment?	Today’s answer to that question will be very different from one you might have received just 10 years ago.

	Pegasus magazine January/February 2004	Valuable Partnership	UCF alumni, scientists, and now entrepreneurs turn to UCF Technology Incubator

	Contact Center World February 21, 2004	Case Study: ACCENT	A contract with a major telecommunications client sparked the need for ACCENT to open a new customer service facility in 2003.

	Orlando Business Journal December 22, 2003	Monster of a Local Film Hits AFI ‘Best’ List	Monster, a $4.5 million independent feature film shot entirely in Central Florida earlier this year, was named on Dec. 15 as one of the American Film Institute's 10 best movies of the year.

	ScienceDaily.com August 14, 2003	UCF Researchers Find That Nanomaterials Developed For Industry Triple Or Quadruple Life Of Brain Cells	A molecular biologist and a nanoscientist at the University of Central Florida have found that nanomaterials developed for industry have an unexpected and potentially revolutionary side effect: They can triple or quadruple the life of brain cells.

	The Cincinnati Enquirer June 8, 2003	A Gen X-odus: Their Top 10 Destinations	Why aren’t young adults coming to Hamilton County? Perhaps it is because they are going to these 10 counties…rated best in the nation for attracting people ages 24 to 35.

	University Business magazine April 2003	Business Incubators: Investing in Ideas	Despite budget cuts and a decline in venture investing, some university business incubators continue to grow with novel approaches.

	Site Selection magazine January 27, 2003	The Sunshine State’s High-Tech Corridor: The Race for Space Lands in Central Florida	With more than 150 companies employing about 5,000 workers and with US$3.5 billion in annual sales, Central Florida's modeling, training and simulation cluster equips soldiers, police officers, firefighters and pilots for virtually every conceivable challenge they may face.