Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 12:55 pm:

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basically says that you can't just build 100 years of auto experience. detroit is unique in the world in this way.

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 2:25 pm:

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Gistok
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Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 12:37 pm:

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Well it looks like NOT ALL creative folks are leaving Detroit, some are even coming here.

This one from Dan's own DC....

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=20077081403 58

Surprise surprise!!

Why would anyone want to leave DC????

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 2:35 pm:

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Dan, I'm going to join the long list of DetroitYes forumers that would like to say how impressed I am that you know everything about every subject!

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 2:38 pm:

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But I sure as shit know what young, educated people are seeking in a place to live.

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 2:49 pm:

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Yet in an e-mail sent Friday to Audi of America's 320 employees, Audi of America's Executive Vice President Johan de Nysschen acknowledged "stressful times" and said he could not "provide any more direction or comments to assuage the mountain of rumors running through our organization.

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"As the head of Audi of America, I am complicit in the current state of affairs," he wrote, neglecting to mention that Audi's brass for some time has been pushing to move its headquarters east. "What I am able to tell you is that the reality is not nearly as severe as some of the rumors would suggest."

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Second, it would enable parent VW to burnish its brands on the coasts by attracting talent that otherwise wouldn't consider opportunities here.

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And third, it would theoretically jump-start flagging energy at VW and Audi in the States, partly by culling Michiganians unwilling to uproot.

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Nor could it come at a worse time for Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who is scheduled to brief the media today and leave Saturday on her five-day investment mission to Germany and Sweden. A meeting with neither VW nor Audi officials is on the governor's agenda, her spokeswoman confirmed Monday.

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 2:52 pm:

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Twenty businesses in high-tech or high-growth areas have either started, relocated or expanded in Oakland County in 2007:

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- World Alliance Finance, a New York state-based finance-sector company, is expected to bring 350 jobs to Troy.

- Landon IP Inc. of Alexandria, Va., an intellectual-property company, is planning to add 300 employees at its new Southfield office over six years.

- Tesla Motors Inc., which opened a technical center in Rochester Hills, is expected to create at least 50 local jobs by next year.

- Facton GbmH, a Germany-based communication/information-tech nology firm, will bring 59 new jobs to Auburn Hills.

- Cbeyond Inc., an Atlanta-based information-technology company, could add 100 jobs in its new location in Farmington Hills.

- Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Inc. could add up to 85 jobs at a packaging plant it acquired in Farmington Hills.

- Wenzel America Ltd., a robotics and automation company, is expected to bring 10 jobs to Wixom.

- JMP Engineering Inc. of London, Ontario, relocated its Southeast Michigan offices to Troy from Livonia, bringing four to eight jobs to Oakland County.

- Acceledyne Technologies Ltd., the nanotech firm of engineer Donna Walker and her patented steel-strengthen-ing process, will create four jobs in Wixom.

- Sitronic GbmH, a German advanced electronics company, is creating two jobs at a facility in Farmington Hills.

- Prion GbmH, a German communications and information-technology firm, opened a Novi office for its U.S. headquarters and added two jobs.

- Kendrion Binder Magnetic, an advanced electronics firm, is creating two jobs in Auburn Hills.

- Netlink, a communications and information-technology company, could add up to 300 jobs as part of an expansion in Madison Heights.

- GreenPath Debt Solutions opened a finance office in Farming-ton Hills that is expected to bring 175 new jobs.

- EPrize Inc., a Pleasant Ridge-based online-promotions company, pledged to add new office space and 200 jobs to its 350 employees nationwide.

- Media Genesis Inc., a Madison Heights maker of Internet video and DVDs, is opening a location in Royal Oak and is expected to add 125 jobs or more over seven years.

- Chrysler Financial will add 100 jobs at its Farmington Hills location after other divisions of DaimlerChrysler Financial move to another location.

- Adept Plastic Finishes Inc., an advanced materials company, is expanding in Wixom and is expected to add 40 jobs.

- RTT USA Inc., a maker of 3-D product design and engineering simulations is adding 10 or more jobs after moving to Royal Oak.

- Romax Technology, a German advanced electronics firm, is adding three jobs at an existing facility in Troy

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 3:07 pm:

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The thinking behind a move is that it ostensibly would distance Audi and VW from troubled Michigan and a beleaguered industry.

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Second, it would enable parent VW to burnish its brands on the coasts by attracting talent that otherwise wouldn't consider opportunities here.

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And third, it would theoretically jump-start flagging energy at VW and Audi in the States, partly by culling Michiganians unwilling to uproot.

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Audi wants "a luxury perspective and orientation and they don't think they can get it here" in Michigan,

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the long tales of woe surrounding Detroit's automakers, their hometown and Michigan are essentially liabilities to recruiting outsiders and promoting insiders. Poll most Germans and nine out of 10 probably would choose a three-year tour in New York or Washington over Detroit

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Finally, like the early days of the failed DaimlerChrysler marriage when Jürgen Schrempp and the boys looked for every chance to meet in New York and avoid Auburn Hills altogether, the prospect of coming to America for meetings and a little fun in, say, the nation's capital trumps three days in Detroit.

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 3:26 pm:

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We are trying to solve the problem.

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 4:12 pm:

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Despite real concerns that people, especially young people, are leaving Michigan, some demographers say the notion of a brain drain - a debilitating loss of educated people - has been oversold to an anxious public hammered by bad news about the automotive industry.

"It's certainly overblown, and to some extent has characteristics of a myth," said Jim Rogers, manager of data for the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, a regional planning agency.

In fact, the state's population is growing, and its population of college graduates also is on the rise.

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The idea of a Michigan brain drain arose because, for many years, Census Bureau figures have shown that more college graduates leave Michigan for other states than move in from elsewhere in the country. The net outflow is particularly strong among younger residents.

But that's just part of the story.

The state's population continues to increase, thanks to the natural birth rate and an influx of immigrants from overseas.

Perhaps even more important for the state's economic future, Michigan's population of college graduates - the people who put the "brain" in brain drain - has been increasing, not declining. Between 2001 and 2004, the Census Bureau's American Community Survey data showed a net increase of 35,700 people with a bachelor's degree or higher choosing to migrate to Michigan.

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Foreign immigration plays a big part. In terms of state-to-state migration, more college grads leave Michigan than arrive. But the rising number of educated immigrants - mainly men with mechanical engineering degrees from Canada, India and China - tips the balance into the positive column.

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Probably because of the demands of the auto industry, metro Detroit's foreign immigrants rank among the most educated in the nation, Frey said. Of the 50 metro areas with the highest percentages of college-educated immigrants, metro Detroit ranked fourth highest. More than 53% of foreign immigrants who came to this area in 2004-2005 had a bachelor's degree or higher.

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Whether young college grads move out of Michigan depends to a great extent on where they grew up. About 53% of U-M's 2001-2005 graduates still live in the state, data from the university show.

But there's a big contrast between the students who were Michigan natives and those who came to U-M from out-of-state, research analyst Fielding said.

About 77% of grads who were Michigan natives still live in the state. In contrast, only 10% of U-M graduates who came to Ann Arbor from another state still live in Michigan. But those out-of-state graduates were the ones the state might have expected to lose anyway.

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 5:16 pm:

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As recently as 1980, the Census Bureau found just 8,300 foreign immigrants with college degrees coming to Michigan during the previous five-year period. By 2001-2004, though, the number of college-educated foreigners arriving in the state had totaled 61,800.