Scott Walker Wants to Grow Wisconsin Business by Poaching from his Neighbors

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But as Steve Deller, a professor of applied economics at UW-Madison, points out, “The problem is that businesses simply just don't move that much.”

UW Professor Questions Campaign To Lure Businesses To Wisconsin.  Deller Says Businesses Rarely Move Across State Lines.  (Wisconsin Public Radio, 12/16/2014)

Regional Growth and Development Strategies:  Business Relocation

Some numbers from the study:

• 2011.  Study year.
• 470,000.  Number of  businesses in Wisconsin.
• 5,200.  Number of businesses that moved.
• 10.  Maximum number of miles that most businesses moved.
• 1,200.  Number of businesses that moved to another state.

Here's another number:

1,600,000

State Launches $1.6 Million Ad Campaign to Promote Wisconsin’s Business Climate and Innovation Advances.  (Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, 11/17/2014)

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