The Purdue Center for Regional Development has released a new resource as part of its Rural Indiana Stats (RIS) website that can prove valuable to economic and agricultural leaders across the state.  The new addition to the RIS site captures…

The DDI is a score that ranges from zero to 100, where a higher score indicates a higher divide. The DDI is calculated considering two main factors: the infrastructure/adoption score (INFA) and the socioeconomic score (SE). INFA looks at access…

Written by Roberto Gallardo and Indraneel Kumar. In our previous post, we introduced a new entrepreneurship metric—entrepreneurship efficiency or EE—that takes into consideration not only the share of entrepreneurs from workers but also the share of workers from total population…

Written by Roberto Gallardo and Indraneel Kumar. Studies have found that the share of businesses less than one year old have declined by almost half between 1980 and 2015. This in turn is making the U.S. economy “old and fat“.…

Written by Roberto Gallardo and Bo Beaulieu. In a previous post, we discussed how the increase in the share of adults (25 years of age and above) with a bachelor’s degree or more over the past 48 years was not…

Economic development officials will agree: the workforce is the number one issue when it comes to creating, attracting, retaining, or expanding businesses in their communities. It has always been this way, but in the unfolding information age, it is even…

(This article was adapted from the author’s Medium post) The recent announcement of funding for the Next Level rural broadband investments in Indiana is a step in the right direction to ensure all Indiana communities participate fully in the digital…

The Census Bureau released last week 2013-2017 five-year estimates of multiple socioeconomic characteristics, including household with internet subscriptions and computing devices. To further understand an Indiana urban-rural digital divide, census tract or neighborhood level data was analyzed. This analysis utilized…