Tracey Grose is a Research Director at Institute for the Future and a Strategic Advisor to Next 10, a nonprofit focused on quality of life issues for all Californians. Tracey’s work reflects her deep curiosity for the clean energy economy, innovation systems and global linkages. Addressing the intersection of the economy and the environment, Tracey can be seen on the Wall Street Journal’s 2011 Portfolio of Ideas. Tracey has directed multiple editions of Next 10’s California Green Innovation Index as well as Many Shades of Green. She is also the architect of the Green Establishment Database, the most comprehensive historical accounting of businesses and employment providing the products and services that reduce negative environmental impacts. Her work at the national level has been published by the Pew Charitable Trusts and others.
During her six‐year tenure at Collaborative Economics, Tracey designed innovative analytical studies which have shed new understanding on how our economy is transforming and where new opportunities are emerging.
Exploring the characteristics of the growing green economy, Tracey 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) and California Green Innovation Index (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012), the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Clean Energy Economy report (2009) as well as the fifty state green economy profiles on behalf of the National Governors Association and others.Tracey is the primary author of a forthcoming article on California’s green economy which will appear in Contemporary Economic Policy in 2012.
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 has assisted leaders in Aquitaine, France with the development of their innovation habitat and linkages with Silicon Valley. This effort included 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.
