Alaska Resources

Alaska Broadband Office – https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/abo/ 

Alaska Federation of Natives: Navigator Program – https://www.nativefederation.org/afn-navigator-program/ 

Alaska Municipal League – Build Alaska’s Future https://buildalaska.org/infrastructure/ 

Alaska Statewide CEDS https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/StatewideComprehensiveEconomicDevelopmentStrategy.aspx 

Alaska Works Partnership – https://www.alaskaworks.org/ 

Bi-Partisan Infrastructure and Jobs Act Maps or Progress  https://www.whitehouse.gov/build/maps-of-progress/ 

Denali Commission Current Projects https://www.denali.gov/currentprojects/ 

Working Papers Created for the ASCENT Project

Holland, H. (2023). ASCENT CEDS Review and Analysis. Prepared for the ASCENT Project Team. Summarizing the Alaska current statewide and regional CEDS.

Holland, H. (2023). Alaska Capital Project Spending as an Economic Engine. Prepared for the ASCENT Project Team. 

Threlkeld, A. (2023). Community Engagement Workshop – One Million Cups. Prepared for the ASCENT Project Team. 

References

Arizona Economic Recovery Center – https://localfirstaz.com/economic-recovery-center
The Arizona Economic Recovery Center (AZERC) aims to enable eligible Arizona cities, towns, counties, tribal communities, and nonprofits to win and implement competitive federal, state, municipal, or foundation grants.

Biven, J. (2012). Public investment: The next ‘new thing’ for powering economic growth. Economic Policy Institute. Briefing Paper 338. https://www.epi.org/publication/bp338-public-investments/ 

• “Investments in public capital have significant positive impacts on private-sector productivity, with estimated rates of return ranging from 15 percent to upwards of 45 percent. (Our preferred estimate is 30 percent, which coincidentally is roughly equivalent to the rate of return on investment in information and communications technology.)

• A consistent research finding is that public capital offers a higher rate of return than most forms of private capital.

• Increasing public investment by just under $250 billion per year on average for the next 10 years (a path outlined in Investing in America’s Economy, a joint EPI/Demos/Century Foundation plan described later in the text) could increase gross domestic product by a greater percentage every year—producing a GDP that is 0.9 to 2.8 percent higher in 2021 than it otherwise would have been. And a significant fraction (40–75 percent) of the plan’s budgetary cost could be essentially self-financing.

• Public investment has benefits that extend beyond simply increasing measured GDP: It also offers benefits that are more broadly shared by all Americans.

• Public investment produces benefits that cannot be measured, such as safer water and cleaner air.”

Federal Funds to Eyak for Spill Response Facility. (2022). https://www.shepardpointoilspillresponse.com/news 
[Federal money for the Native Village of Eyak will pay for construction of a road to a spill response facility at Shepard Point, north of Cordova.]

Federal Highway Administration. (2022). FHWA Announces $45.7 Million Grant to Alaska’s Native Village of Eyak to Improve Multi-Modal Transportation Access to Oil Spill Response Facility https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/fhwa-announces-457-million-grant-alaskas-native-village-eyak-improve-multi-modal 

Jafari-Sadeghi, V. Garcia-Perez, A., Candelo, E., Couturier, J. (2021). Exploring the impact of digital transformation on technology entrepreneurship and technological market expansion: The role of technology readiness, exploration and exploitation. Journal of Business Research, Volume 124, 2021, Pages 100-111, ISSN 0148-2963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.11.020. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296320307736)

“Abstract: The objective of this research is to addresses the effects of digital transformation on value creation through the study of technology entrepreneurship and technological market expansion…”

Leduc. S., Wilson, D. (2012). Roads to Prosperity or Bridges to Nowhere? Theory and Evidence on the Impact of Public Infrastructure Investment. Retrieved from https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/669173 

[A look at the multiplier effect that disappears after 10 years.]

Liu A, McDearman B, Briggs X, Muro M, Pipa A, Tomer A, Vey J. Making local economies prosperous and resilient: The case for a modern Economic Development Administration. Brookings. June 27, 2022. Retrieved June 2023 from https://www.brookings.edu/research/making-local-economies-prosperous-and-resilient-the-case-for-a-modern-economic-development-administration/

EDA must play four essential roles: thought leader, resource provider, capacity builder, and coordinator of federal support for local economic development. These roles complement the key roles of state, local, and public and private sector actors. 

McFaul, S., Xavier, A., Meech, J. (2004). DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE SMALL BUSINESSES IN MINING-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES. SHECHTMAN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, 2014. 
[Creating local economic capacity to the transition when a large economic driver leaves.]

Morrison, E., Barrett, J.D. and Fadden, J.B. (2019), “Shoals Shift Project: an ecosystem transformation success story”, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 339-358. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEPP-04-2019-0033 

Morrison, E. (2021). Strategic Doing: A Strategy Model for Open Networks.  https://agilestrategylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1651775616018_Strategic-Doing-A-Strategy-Model-for-Open-Networks.pdf 

Morrison, E., & Hutcheson, S. (2014). Accelerating Civic Innovation Through “Strategic Doing.” Stanford Social Innovation Review. https://doi.org/10.48558/CTKA-BZ93 

Nome summary Nome Workforce Summit: KEY TAKEAWAYS AND NEXT STEPS https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XcQfvD1GFLK69H1V6oPkUHDRhoZMrebN/view?usp=sharing  

NW Arctic Regional Enegy plan 2022   http://www.nwabor.org/wp-content/uploads/NWAB-Regional-Energy-Plan-Update-Final-Reduced.pdf 

Stephens, H., Mack. E., Mann, J., (2022). Broadband and entrepreneurship: An empirical assessment of the connection between broadband availability and new business activity across the United States.Telematics and Informatics, Volume 74, 2022, 101873, Accessed from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2022.101873 

[Abstract: Research investigating the linkages between broadband and new business activity in countries around the world produce mixed results related to important nuances in this relationship pertaining to industry characteristics, geography, and the skill level of the workforce. Given these nuances, the goal of this study is to investigate the connection between broadband availability and new business activity, building on regional and rural-focused studies within the United States…]

Tomer A, Vey J, George C. (2022). With historic federal investment incoming, regions must collaborate on planning. Brookings. March 10, 2022. Retrieved June 2023 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2022/03/10/with-historic-federal-investment-incoming-regions-must-collaborate-on-planning/

“…The federal government helped start this next great wave of metropolitan capital investment, so it should ensure that investment will be used to best effect. We recommend Congress establish a new planning coordination program… to formally integrate objectives and priority projects across multiple long-range plans. For a relative pittance compared to the costs of capital projects, the federal government can incentivize metropolitan partners to develop the coordination template America needs to make good on its investment ambitions… The private and civic sectors play a role too, often working with local governments to design long-range economic development strategies, including how to deliver more inclusive career pathways, what big bets to make on innovative industries, or drafting master plans for specific districts.”

Tomer A, George C, Kane J. (2023). The start of America’s infrastructure decade: How macroeconomic factors may shape local strategies. Brookings. February 1, 2023. https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-start-of-americas-infrastructure-decade-how-macroeconomic-factors-may-shape-local-strategies/ Retrieved June 2023.

“…That process starts with being realistic about a community’s long-term goals for growing its economy, making sure outcomes are more inclusive, and protecting the natural and built environment. Leaders should not simply look at old capital budgets and blindly greenlight long-standing ideas, like a multibillion-dollar project to add highway lanes between exurban Kansas City, Mo. and exurban St. Louis. Just because previous officials prioritized something doesn’t mean current leaders should pursue it. Instead, they should consider the evidence showing what economic competitiveness will require in the future—helping small businesses grow locally; attracting and developing young talent; boosting public health for the most vulnerable; making families, companies, and community services more resilient to climate change—and prioritize projects that advance those goals…”

Vagliasindi,Maria; Gorgulu,Nisan. What Have We Learned about the Effectiveness of Infrastructure Investment as a Fiscal Stimulus A Literature Review (English). Policy Research working paper,no. WPS 9796,COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/178841633526651703/What-Have-We-Learned-about-the-Effectiveness-of-Infrastructure-Investment-as-a-Fiscal-Stimulus-A-Literature-Review 

“…Two types of infrastructure investments look to be of particular relevance to recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. The first is digital technologies, which have come into their own to support economic and social resilience while complying with public health directives on social distancing. Accordingly, the demand for digital goods and services has soared across the public and private sectors and exposed major deficiencies in the availability and performance of broadband infrastructure. The second category is green infrastructure, which offers relatively good performance on job creation, while at the same time shifting economies to lower carbon emission trajectories in the context of increasingly pressing global climate targets. Investments such as rural electrification, public transport, energy efficiency and renewable energy offer the possibility of contributing simultaneously to economic, environmental and social goals…”

Wang F, Yao M, Huang X, Guo H, Zheng P, Yu H. The Effects of Investment in Major Construction Projects on Regional Economic Growth Quality: A Difference-In-Differences Analysis Based on PPP Policy. Sustainability. 2022; 14(11):6796. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14116796  

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/11/6796 “…We find that the (Major Construction Projects) MCPs  investment can significantly improve the quality of regional economic growth. The MCPs investment can improve the quality of regional economic growth by enhancing innovation and entrepreneurship at the regional levels. Our findings may provide empirical evidence to support the policy of increasing investment into infrastructure constructions to promote sustainable development in the current economic recession under the COVID-19 pandemic.