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Right Workforce
- Indiana is home to 76 world–class colleges and universities.
- Indiana has the 7th best working environment in the United States. None of our neighboring states ranks higher than 16th. (University of Massachusetts-Amherst, October 2005)
- Purdue University graduates more IT students each year than any other university in the nation.
- Indiana ranks 3rd or higher in nearly every segment of the automotive industry.
- International companies employ more than 18 percent of Indiana’s manufacturing workforce.
- Indiana schools outperform the national average at all grade levels in mathematics and science.
- Indiana’s public and private research universities have established nationwide centers of excellence dedicated to research and development in the advanced manufacturing fields and workforce training.
- According to a 2004 survey of Indiana employers:
- 95 percent of the employers rated their workers as good or excellent in productivity
- 74 percent rated their workers as good or excellent in reading and writing competency
- Absenteeism was rated Low; Turnover was rated Very Low.
- A 2006 analysis of census data demonstrated that, according to four of the five metrics used for worker productivity, Indiana excelled above all of its neighboring states as well as the national average in productivity increases from 1997-2002. The 2002 census data alone showed that Indiana beat the national average and its neighbors – Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky – in terms of:
- Value-added per employee
- Value-added per production worker
- Value-added per payroll wage dollar
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“As we researched potential locations to grow our company, it became apparent that Indiana values the life sciences and health industry. We are eager to leverage the assets available in the state and introduce our technologies to the global market.”
Frank Cheng
President and Chief Executive
Oxford BioSignals Medical
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