Latest articles from Michal Kaczmarski

Bob Buckhorn

Tampa's youthful spirit

Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn is repositioning the Florida city as the destination for young professionals and foreign investment by focusing on its specialist clusters and developing its infrastructure to provide an attractive urban environment. Michal Kaczmarksi reports.

San Diego bay

Thinking innovatively, talking tech: the 21st century city

An increasing number of cities across the globe are employing senior officials in roles that mimic the titles typically found in tech companies or start-ups. Michal Kaczmarski looks at why.

Baidu

China's tech target: domestic dominance leads to global ambition

China's tech companies have thus far largely concentrated on cracking their considerable domestic market. However, led by the likes of Alibaba and Huawei, they are now increasingly looking to expand globally, into both developed and emerging economies.

Shelling out

Shell bets big on Pittsburgh's manufacturing strengths

Pittsburgh's steel-making heyday may be behind it but the city's strong infrastructure has convinced Shell it is the right place to build its new ethane cracker plant in Monaca. But what made the multinational oil company settle on a location so far from its usual US home of the Gulf Coast? Michal Kaczmarski finds out.

GlaxoSmithKline in Upper Providence

Worth the experiment? US second-tier biotech locations make their case

Soaring costs at the US's major biotech hubs such as Boston and California are moving the spotlight to second-tier locations. But how can the likes of Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Maryland stand out from the crowd at attract investment in this lucrative sector? Michal Kaczmarski finds out.

Brian Gallant

New Brunswick premier seeks to extend warm welcome

Brian Gallant, premier of New Brunswick, tells Michal Kaczmarski why his province’s openness to overseas talent holds the key to its FDI future.

Nova KBM

Slovenia hopes to persuade investors and locals to love FDI

Foreign investors have largely ignored Slovenia over the past few years, a situation that suits many in the country who see outside investment and privatisation as a threat to national interests. Recent government moves seem to have lessened this mutual distrust, but will it lead to a loving relationship? Michal Kaczmarski investigates.

From News

Mercedes-Benz bets big on Hungary

Hungary has struck a $1.1bn deal with Mercedes-Benz that has broken the country's record for a single greenfield investment in car manufacturing.

Keith Summey

North Charleston: selling a city

Keith Summey, mayor of North Charleston, South Carolina, talks about how he kept the city on a upward trend despite the closure of the local naval shipyard.

Moldovan workers sort apples

Moldova still fighting from the bottom

Despite the relative ease of doing business in the country, infrastructure problems and political strife mean that Moldova is near bottom of the heap in Europe when it comes to annual GDP per capita and attracting investment.

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