Paper 1
"Skills, Training and Workforce Development in North Carolina: The Role of Community Colleges"
Deepa George

Focuses on the effectiveness of NC community colleges in providing both high and low-skill workers with opportunities for retraining in emerging industries or for upgrading skills to be more competitive in their current industries.
View pdf: January 2006

Paper 2
"Inter-Industry Trends: North Carolina Industry in the US and Global Context"
Ryan Denniston

Builds understanding of where North Carolina fits into the national and global economy, and how this has changed over time. The research attempts to trace these issues through a comparison between seven key industries as they are situated in North Carolina.
View pdf: January 2006

Paper 3
"Case Selection in the Textiles, Apparel, Furniture, and Computer Industries: An Assessment of Industry Location and County Dependence upon Manufacturing Employment"
Ryan Denniston

Describes statewide trends in manufacturing employment and selected industries over the 1990s in an attempt to gauge the actual and potential severity of these nationwide trends to local communities. This effort is used to guide future case study research in communities and industries of particular interest to North Carolina.
View pdf: January 2006

Paper 4
"A Good Fit: North Carolina’s Place in the Biotechnology Value Chain"
Mari Armstrong-Hough

Attempts to establish where North Carolina’s biotechnology cluster is now using global value chain analysis, as well as to use this same tool as a map for the future.
View pdf: January 2006