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Targeting Federal Laboratories as a Catalyst for Private Investment in Research and Development
Professor of Economics, University Economist, and Director, L. William Seidman Research Institute
Explains how the attraction of a federally funded research and development center would aid economic development, particularly private-sector research and development, in Arizona.
Professor of Economics, University Economist, and Director, L. William Seidman Research Institute
Dennis received a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Grand Valley State University, a M.S. in economics from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University in 1978. He has served on the faculty of the Department of Economics at ASU since 1979, as director of ASU’s L. William Seidman Research Institute since 2004, and as the director of the Office of the University Economist since 2005.
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