TARGETING REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
A JOINT INITIATIVE OF THE REGIONAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT CENTERS

1. Introduction
     What is TRED?
     Why now?
     About Clusters

2. Basic Tools
     Level I: Location Quotients, Shift-Share,
     Simple Logit, Threshold Models
     Level II: Import Substituion, Gap Analysis,
     Entrepreneurial Opportunities

3. Pulling it all together
    Planning processes
     Elements of success
     Community Business Matching, Analytical      Hierarchy  Process

4. Strategies
     From goals & objectives to...
      Strategies

Data
County Business Patterns/Census
Regional Economic Information System/BEA

Tools
Location Quotients (BLS)
Shift-Share Analysis /W. Kriesel
National Threshold Model

External Websites
Headwaters Economics
Council for Community and Economic and Research

Further Reading Targeting Regional Economic Development, Goetz, Deller & Harris, eds. A Governor's Guide to Cluster- Based Development
Workforce Development NYECON