TRACEY GROSE • Vice President of Research & Strategic Development
Tracey Grose has in-depth analytical experience in the study of regional development issues with a focus on the global economy and the green economy in California and beyond. Since joining Collaborative Economics in 2006, Tracey has designed and led innovative analytical studies and provided training to government and education officials as well as business people on regional economic analysis methods.
Exploring the characteristics of the growing green economy, Tracey has led the development of a taxonomy of “green industries” and a database of current firms with business activities concentrated in the provision of goods or services aimed at reducing or reversing environmental impacts. This work has been published in the California Green Innovation Index (2008, 2009, 2010 forthcoming) the Index of Silicon Valley (2008, 2009, 2010 forthcoming), and in the “Clean Technology and the Green Economy” report (2008) for the California Regional Economies Project. Most recently, Tracey led the nationwide, fifty-state analysis on behalf of the Pew Charitable Trusts for the Clean Energy Economy report (2009).
With years of study of regional innovation assets, Tracey has a particular interest in examining not only how regions (or countries) compare, but in how they are linked in the world’s innovation networks. Tracey has developed new methods for tracking the global integration of innovative regions at the sub-national level. These new metrics help shed light on the extent of global collaboration in research and business among regions in the world as reported in the 2007 Index of Silicon Valley and in other regional work in California. In international work, Tracey is currently developing analytical tools and facilitating a regional strategic development process for the French region of Languedoc-Roussillon and contributed to a regional innovation study for Île de France (greater Paris). In addition to many years spent in Germany, Tracey has carried out informal study of public innovation efforts in Bavaria.
In other work, Tracey was the primary author of “California’s Food Chain” report for the California Regional Economies Project. Tracey led a study tracking the employment histories of Silicon Valley tech workers in follow-on work to a study she co-author prior to joining Collaborative Economics. Other workforce analysis includes tracking the career paths of Certified Nurse Assistants and the compensation patterns of restaurant workers.
Tracey has a Masters degree in Political Science with minors in Economics and Sociology from the JWG-University in Frankfurt, Germany. Her Masters thesis examined the bi-polar labor market in Silicon Valley during the economic expansion. Tracey is fluent in German and has a basic proficiency in French.
Collaborative Economics currently has a core staff of 11 and an extensive network of partners representing a broad array of expertise.