Tracey Grose is Vice President of Research and Strategic Development at
Collaborative Economics based in Mountain View, California. She 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 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 Many Shades of
Green: Diversity and Distribution of
California’s Green Jobs (2009), California Green Innovation Index
(2008, 2009, 2010 forthcoming) the Index of Silicon Valley (2008,
2009, 2010), 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).
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 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 recently took part in a review process of
the regional innovation strategy of Skåne in Southern Sweden in which
she teamed other consultants interviewing local actors, reviewing strategies
and designing a final framework of action.
In other work, she 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 addition to many years spent in Germany, Tracey has
carried out informal study of public innovation efforts in Germany.
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-authored 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.
