OECD Territorial Reviews: The Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area, United States 2012

The OECD Territorial Review of the Chicago Tri-State metropolitan area, the first of its kind conducted by the OECD in the United States, assesses the region's capacity to contribute effectively to regional and national economic performance and quality of life. The Review focuses on four thematic policy issues: i) the effectiveness and coordination of workforce development programmes in the Chicago Tri-State metro-region; ii) the metro-region's capacity for innovation; iii) its role as a major centre for logistics in North America; and (iv) its capacity to encourage green growth over the long Foreword......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 6 Table of contents......Page 9 Acronyms and abbreviations......Page 15 Assessment and recommendations......Page 19 Chapter 1 Assets and challenges for the Tri-State Metropolitan Region’s competitiveness......Page 37 1.1. Chicago: a large metropolitan region straddling three states......Page 41 1.2. A wealthy global Metro-Region with key assets......Page 46 1.3. Constraints to regional growth......Page 67 1.4. Responding to environmental and economic challenges through the green economy......Page 96 1.5. Conclusion: towards a regional vision for the Chicago Tri-State Metro-Region......Page 100 Notes......Page 103 Bibliography......Page 107 Chapter 2 Matching skills to jobs in the Tri-State Region......Page 111 2.1. The region’s workforce is ageing and fragmented......Page 114 2.2 The training system: multiple programmes and players with little policy co-ordination......Page 116 2.3. The result: a mismatch between skills supply and demand......Page 126 2.4. A way forward: greater co-ordination and deeper private-public engagement......Page 132 Notes......Page 144 Bibliography......Page 147 ANNEX 2A.1......Page 149 Chapter 3 Innovation and entrepreneurship in the Tri-State Region......Page 155 3.1. The Tri-State Region’s innovation ecosystem and policies......Page 160 3.2. Broaden the innovation focus......Page 175 3.3. Public-Private-Partnerships for innovation: adapting to the knowledge economy......Page 178 3.4. Capitalising on federal innovation support programmes......Page 180 Notes......Page 188 Bibliography......Page 191 Chapter 4 Transportation and logistics in the Tri-State Region......Page 195 4.1. The economic potential of the Tri-State Region’s hub......Page 197 4.2. Main challenges facing the hub......Page 211 4.3. A way forward: a planning and financing toolkit for the region’s hub......Page 219 Notes......Page 229 Bibliography......Page 230 Chapter 5 Increasing the Tri-State Region’s competitiveness through green growth......Page 233 5.1. The growth potential of the green economy......Page 237 5.2. Sectoral opportunities for green jobs, green firms and urban attractiveness......Page 242 5.3. Making workforce and innovation policies work for green growth......Page 260 5.4. Multi-level governance mechanisms to increase green growth......Page 268 Notes......Page 272 Bibliography......Page 274 Chapter 6 Effective institutional arrangements in the Tri-State Region......Page 281 6.1. Main challenges......Page 283 6.2. Tri-State collaboration to drive growth......Page 294 6.3. Implementing the vision: ongoing institutional capacity and political engagement......Page 308 Notes......Page 312 Bibliography......Page 315