His research concerns changes in work organization within companies, career patterns and processes within firms, economic development, urban poverty, and public policy surrounding skills training and employment programs.
Specific topics include the origins and role of the World Trade Organization; the use of non-tariff barriers; strategic trade and industrial policy; labor and environmental standards; dispute settlement; regulatory interaction between governments and multinational firms; economic development; and the rise of trading blocs.
Technology transfer offices, law firms, venture capital firms, economic development authorities, and biotechnology companies with scarce resources or close ties to universities are all organizations that can offer such an experience.
Mr. Washington is now working to create a consulting firm to spur economic development in Sierra Leone — like buying goats, but on a much grander scale — and is looking forward to his coming movie "Blackbird," which he describes as an "African-American gay coming-of-age story".
"It's no coincidence if we can attract the head offices of international firms," says Kate North, economic development officer at Ashford borough council.
It hits many desirable highlights: postdoc experiences as a Fullbright scholar and a visiting scientist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), many dozens of published papers and patents, and a long list of impressive job titles from drug companies to law and venture capital firms to state economic development organizations.
Holshouser continued to practice with Sanford Holshouser LLP until his death (the firm continues under that name), and their economic development consulting firm continued under that name.
It hired a consulting firm to devise an economic development strategy.
Two-hundred twenty companies across the nation applied for a place at this morning's conference, according to David Gerhardt, the president of Capital Network, the nonprofit economic development firm in Austin that organized it.
"There's no doubt the nation's moving in a direction of renewable energy," said Greg Smith, who runs an economic development firm near here that has been working for Ambre Energy, the Australian-owned coal company behind the Boardman project and one in Washington.
