ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

How can your organization stimulate greater prosperity?

Economic development is about creating opportunities and communities where people want to live and work. It’s about retaining an existing economic base and making it more prosperous. It’s about drawing new economic activity through an attractive investment environment. And it’s about an innovative start-up ecosystem where entrepreneurs turn dreams into new businesses. Whether you’re a government agency, a private development entity or a university looking to be more engaged, Growth Innovations Group will take your strategy to the next level. We suggest new actions, bring together stakeholders, benchmark competitors, help you leverage emerging technologies and enable new collaborations that cross traditional boundaries.

Growth Innovations Group helps you discover new pathways to collaborate, compete and thrive.

INNOVATION STRATEGY 

What can your organization do to unleash the power of innovation?

Innovation is the process of identifying, distilling and moving ideas into practice that create new value. Innovation for business can be a new or improved product, service, business model or process. For entrepreneurs innovation can be a new firm and even an entirely new industry. Trade associations can leverage innovation to help their members embrace new technology and gain a competitive edge. Government agencies or universities tap innovation for vastly improved ways to serve constituents, students or communities. Growth Innovations Group can help you embrace the policies, partnerships and programs that facilitate innovation. Through our own knowledge and an extensive network of experts across the country, we will enable you to drive change rather than react to it.

Growth Innovations Group helps your organization create a culture and ecosystem for innovation.

STRATEGIC VISIONING

Where is your organization heading?

You and your executive team have ideas about what you’d like your organization to be. What thoughts do your customers, board members and employees have? Our first job is to listen. Growth Innovations Group aims to improve and multiply your best – that means we add an outside perspective to help you consider new pathways, partners and perspectives as you pursue your goals. We offer thought leadership and analysis that enables you to better understand your competition and stakeholder networks. We help you articulate your future and prioritize the metrics by which you’ll determine and communicate success.

Growth Innovations Group helps your organization lead with confidence and clarity.

MANUFACTURING LEADERSHIP

Are you ready to compete in a new era of manufacturing?

Manufacturing remains at the economic heart of many communities. Even as factories rely more heavily on robotics and sensors, the manufacturing sector is a vital part of the economy. Manufacturers support extensive supply chain, transportation and service jobs well beyond their own employees. And U.S. manufacturers are looking for workers in a big way. Growth Innovations Group helps individual firms, trade associations and governments to make manufacturing more competitive. We modernize partnerships and programs with academic and training institutions, employers and public agencies to build an educated and skilled workforce. We also create or connect manufacturers to centers of expertise so they can leverage rapidly emerging technologies more effectively that are reshaping the sector.

Growth Innovations Group helps manufacturers address pressing talent and technology challenges and seize new opportunities.

UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP

How can your institution serve students better and have more local, national and global impact?  

Universities are charged with preparing students to be informed, productive citizens. That mission pulls institutions in multiple, often evolving directions. Growth Innovations Group enables universities to strengthen their economic development and engagement strategies so their students and faculty can contribute effectively to economic prosperity through innovation, community life and entrepreneurship. We help universities build mutually rewarding relationships with economic development authorities and industry groups. Growth Innovations Group principals were all part of a national effort to define strategy and best practices in economic development for universities. Our team also can help universities find new ways to serve more students, serve them more cost effectively and enable students to acquire high-demand knowledge and skills sought by private sector partners.

Growth Innovations Group enables universities to both adopt and disseminate innovation.

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