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The Competitive Region

ICF International is a leader and innovator in regional economic strategy, emphasizing regional industry cluster competitiveness with distinctive analytic tools and a collaborative strategy process proven in over 40 regions worldwide.

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Clusters 2.0: The Local Reality of Globalization
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Our Competitive Region offering strengthens overall regional performance by focusing on enhancing the structure and position of your region's portfolio of industry clusters. We will deliver to your region a comparative assessment of your current regional performance, an in-depth analysis of both your industry clusters and their accompanying input foundations, and carry out a collaborative process that will identify and develop distinct actions that will form, expand, and attract enterprise within each cluster—both existing and emerging.

Our "scalable economic strategy approach" is distinctive in that our efforts integrate the continuum of activity from strategy to implementation for your state or region. Our work places an emphasis on changing behavior and catalyzing investment. The results are agreements for concrete actions, each with their own impetus for implementation—whether new technology commercialization institutes, "deal generator" initiatives to produce new ventures, skills "pipeline' partnerships to meet labor demand, collaborative marketing mechanisms, or new technology parks that enable the convergence of public and private economic interests and capabilities.

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