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From page 10... ... As the rise of digital photography proceeded, Kodak experimented with various products to augment its ﬁlm business, including hybrid digitalﬁlm cameras and pharmaceutical drugs, but nothing developed into a major market. After ﬁling for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak shed many of its liabilities along with many of its product lines -- including consumer cameras and ﬁlm -- and emerged in September 2013 as a much smaller and different ﬁrm. Read the entire page →
From page 11... ... But by the 1990s, rising living standards in the South combined with greater access to low-cost capacity in other countries led most textile manufacturers in North Carolina and the rest of the United States to relocate overseas. Similarly, tobacco -- farming and the production of tobacco products -- was a major part of the state's economy through the 1960s, but by the 1990s most of the tobacco industry in the state had relocated overseas. Read the entire page →
From page 12... ... RTP is a prominent example of local government working with private industry and academia to create a local ecosystem for innovation that attracts and nurtures high-tech companies and takes advantage of the talented students graduating from nearby universities, including Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. Encompassing Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, RTP is now home to a rapidly growing number of companies that make electronics components, design software, and develop nanomanufacturing techniques, while the western part of the state manufactures a large percentage of the world's ﬁberoptic cables and contains a large number of data centers, including those run by Google, Apple, Facebook, and AT&T. Read the entire page →
From page 13... ... The individuals, companies, and countries that can truly understand these changes and act on them will be the ones that are most able to prosper in the 21st century. Read the entire page →

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... As the rise of digital photography proceeded, Kodak experimented with various products to augment its ﬁlm business, including hybrid digitalﬁlm cameras and pharmaceutical drugs, but nothing developed into a major market. After ﬁling for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak shed many of its liabilities along with many of its product lines -- including consumer cameras and ﬁlm -- and emerged in September 2013 as a much smaller and different ﬁrm.

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... But by the 1990s, rising living standards in the South combined with greater access to low-cost capacity in other countries led most textile manufacturers in North Carolina and the rest of the United States to relocate overseas. Similarly, tobacco -- farming and the production of tobacco products -- was a major part of the state's economy through the 1960s, but by the 1990s most of the tobacco industry in the state had relocated overseas.

Read the entire page →

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... RTP is a prominent example of local government working with private industry and academia to create a local ecosystem for innovation that attracts and nurtures high-tech companies and takes advantage of the talented students graduating from nearby universities, including Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. Encompassing Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, RTP is now home to a rapidly growing number of companies that make electronics components, design software, and develop nanomanufacturing techniques, while the western part of the state manufactures a large percentage of the world's ﬁberoptic cables and contains a large number of data centers, including those run by Google, Apple, Facebook, and AT&T.

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... The individuals, companies, and countries that can truly understand these changes and act on them will be the ones that are most able to prosper in the 21st century.

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Prologue Pages 10-13

Prologue
Pages 10-13