TRACEY GROSE • Vice President and Director of Research & Strategic Development
Tracey Grose has in-depth experience in the study of regional development issues with emphasis on the global economy and the green economy in California and beyond. Since joining Collaborative Economics in 2006, Tracey has designed innovative analytical studies which have produced new understanding about how our economy is transforming and where new opportunities are emerging. Tracey has also provided training to government and education officials as well as business leaders on regional economic analysis methods.
Exploring the characteristics of the growing green economy, Tracey has led the development of the Green Establishment Database consisting of businesses providing products and services which reduce or reverse negative environmental impacts. This work has been published in Next 10’s Many Shades of Green: Diversity and Distribution of California’s Green Jobs (2009, 2011, 2012 forthcoming) and California Green Innovation Index (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), the Index of Silicon Valley (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) on behalf of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, and in the “Clean Technology and the Green Economy” report (2008) for the California Regional Economies Project. Additionally, Tracey led the nationwide, fifty-state analysis on behalf of the Pew Charitable Trusts for the Clean Energy Economy report (2009) as well as the fifty state green economy profiles on behalf of the National Governors Association. Tracey is the primary author of a forthcoming article on California’s green economy which will appear in Contemporary Economic Policy in late 2011.
In examination of regional innovation assets, Tracey has a particular interest in uncovering how regions are linked in the world’s innovation networks as opposed to simply how they rank against each other. Tracey has developed new methods for tracking the global integration of innovative regions at the sub-national level. These new metrics shed light on global collaboration in research and business among regions in the world as reported in the Index of Silicon Valley (2007, 2010), California's Role in the Global Economy: New Context, New Opportunities (2008) and in other regional work in California.
In international work, Tracey is currently aiding in the development of the innovation habitat in Aquitaine, France and building linkages with Silicon Valley. This effort includes providing seminars in Bordeaux and hosting delegations of public and private sector leaders in the US. Tracey has developed analytical tools and facilitated 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 other work, Tracey participated in a review process of the regional innovation strategy of Skåne in Southern Sweden in which she teamed with other experts interviewing local actors, reviewing strategies and designing a final framework of action. While there, she also spoke at the 2010 Innovation In Mind Conference in Lund. In addition to many years spent in Germany,
Tracey has carried out informal study of public innovation efforts in Germany. 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 of the 1990s. Tracey is fluent in German and has a working proficiency in French.
Collaborative Economics currently has a core staff of 11 and an extensive network of partners representing a broad array of expertise.