Editorial: Access and responsiveness shape economic development vision
“The Roanoke Valley is working to change its economic climate, aiming to take maximum advantage of Virginia Tech’s biomedical research to encourage entrepreneurship and work with more startup companies, ‘trying to get into the new world,’ Sandel said. He noted, though, that this can’t be the only focus of economic development for the region. ‘The new world doesn’t mean that manufacturing is going away. Manufacturing is still the base.'”