Dr. Heike Mayer is Co-Director of the Metropolitan Institute and associate professor in the Urban Affairs and Planning program at Virginia Tech’s Alexandria Center.

She studied the University of Konstanz (Germany) and received a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Portland State University.

Her research interests focus on the factors shaping the economic competitiveness of cities and regions.

 
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Brookings paper explores rise of second tier high-tech regions in the United States

By Heike Mayer on July 20, 2009 9:23 AM

I recently published a paper with the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. The paper shows how three metropolitan areas--Portland (OR), Kansas City, and Boise--became centers of high technology industry without the presence of a major university.The evidence on high-tech development in the three metropolitan areas offers important information for policymakers and practitioners interested in technology-based economic development outside of large, well-established high tech centers.

To download the Brookings report, click here.

Book explores small town sustainability with case studies from around the world!

By Heike Mayer on June 28, 2009 11:10 AM
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Smalltowns_000.jpgPaul Knox and Heike Mayer have published Small Town Sustainability: Economic, Social, and Environmental Innovation with the publisher Birkhäuser in Basel, Switzerland.

The book is also published in German with the title Kleinstädte und Nachhaltigkeit: Konzepte für Wirtschaft, Umwelt und soziales Leben.  The full citation reads as follows: Knox, P. & Mayer, H. (2009). Small Town Sustainability: Economic, Social, and Environmental Innovation. Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland.

For a link to the publisher's site, click here.