The Partnership’s initial programmatic efforts will focus on three primary areas:

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• Expanding regional growth capacity to execute core economic development functions including:

  • Business expansion, retention, and attraction

  • International engagement 

  • Cluster-building in high-opportunity industries

  • Regional marketing

  • Talent-to-employer alignment

  • Research and data analysis

  • Coordination among local and regional partners

 

• Shared implementation of priority tactics identified in the regional growth strategy, with a preliminary focus on the following three opportunity industries:

  • Enterprise digital solutions

  • Precision manufacturing in industrial technologies

  • Biomedical engineering and production

 

• Helping employers, educational institutions, and workforce providers align talent pipelines with real-time industry demand, ensuring the region’s education and workforce systems respond to evolving employer needs and jobs created