Workforce Innovations: Business Resources

Business Resources

U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Center for Workforce Preparation

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce created the Center for Workforce Preparation (CWP) in 1990 to help build leadership in local chambers for workforce development and help them recognize the value and importance of this leadership role. It does this by providing tools, knowledge, and strategic relationships to help chambers and their business members succeed.

Hundreds of one-stop centers across the country are meeting and exceeding employers' workforce needs, and CWP has the names of the businesses and their stories to prove it. Visit CWP's geographically searchable database of real employers responding to the good work that one-stop centers like NOVA are doing.

Public Policy Institute of California: The Dynamics of California's Biotechnology Industry

California is the birthplace of the U.S. biotechnology industry and home to a large share of the industry. The state accounts for 47 percent of national R&D spending on biotechnology and generates 53 percent of the nation's biotech revenues. In The Dynamics of California's Biotechnology Industry, the Public Policy Institute of California's authors provide a detailed examination of the biotech industry in California. They look in particular at the relationship between venture capital and the formation of new firms, the entrepreneurs who start these firms, and the extent to which biotech firms are leaving California.

NOVA's Workforce Review

The Workforce Review is a two-page fact sheet featuring data on labor force trends, including regional unemployment rate and change, specific labor force data for NOVA's consortium of cities, and workforce reductions in the NOVA area.