As the annual Summit draws near, ICF has compiled the essential information you should know in preparation for the big event.

There are few communities in the world where one can so clearly see the muscles and sinews of a new economy taking shape on the bones of the old.  Dundee was a flourishing industrial city until de-industrialization ravaged its economy and sent it into an apparent death spiral.  Its leadership rallied to form a collaborative body called the Dundee Partnership to forged a broader economic development vision for the city.  As Dundee entered the 21st Century, the research uncovered the first net job growth in decades, despite a continuing fall in manufacturing employment and levels of unemployment higher than the national average.