For decades, Pittsburgh has thrived as a regional entertainment media center, and as the setting for popular movies and television shows including Silence of the Lambs, Batman and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. The metro area has seen a total...

Older populations are growing rapidly in a number of Asian countries. As working people reach age milestones and exit the labor force, questions arise: How will the traditional retirement years be financed? What will the future hold for...

To maintain its leadership in innovation, California must provide a competitive business environment in which prospective and existing companies can conduct research. For this report, Milken Institute researchers conducted one of the most...

There’s a lot of discussion around disruption these days. We all can likely think of at least one company in recent months that either failed to stay close to the customer, missing critical signals that sealed their fate, or that became so...

The State Technology and Science Index (STSI) measures states on their science and technology capabilities and broader commercialization ecosystems that contribute to firm expansion, high-skills job creation, and broad economic growth. It...

The Milken Institute and U.S. Small Business Administration Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets ( PLUM) initiative aims to increase the amount of capital reaching minority-owned businesses and the number of successful minority...

When it comes to being an advocate for the rights of domestic workers, MacArthur Fellow Ai-jen Poo is on the front line. She has made it her mission to empower and organize domestic workers, protect their rights, and improve their working...

Universities play an important role in determining a region’s capacity for innovation and to transform new ideas into economic activity. Not only do they educate the local workforce—creating human capital—and produce intellectual property...

This report investigates the means of U.S. states and the U.S. as a whole to educate and maintain a local workforce as the economic landscape of the U.S. is seeing increasing competition for a talented workforce. The concentration of...

Since the passage of the expansion of California’s Film and Television Production Credit in 2014, the global competition for attracting movie and television production has continued to heat up. California’s film credit has demonstrated the...