Learning Outcomes

Participants will gain the skills needed to:

• Identify and prioritize their region’s clusters.
• Implement an interactive, collaborative strategy development process by involving key leaders from business, government, education and civic life. A 12 step process will be introduced.
• Mobilize business leaders in the implementation of action initiatives that directly address regional competitiveness challenges.
• Evaluate their region’s economic foundations (infrastructure, human resources, quality of life, tax and regulatory policies, and access to technology and financial resources).