Economic Development

"I don’t think the economic success we’ve experienced the past two years happened by accident. The strategic foundation you built three years ago has played a large part in setting the forces in motion to create the economic growth and excitement we are experiencing today."

Country Manager,
Power utility company

Economic Development


Geo Strategy Partners economic development practice combines the best elements of strategy, marketing, and international business to help our clients achieve a sustainable global competitive advantage. In a competitive world with free trade in products and services, even the largest economies must differentiate their development strategies. Geo Strategy Partners helps development organizations with strategic positioning, strategic planning, investment recruiting, business expansion and retention and international trade promotion.

 

Building Relationship
A Relationship That Means Business


Economic Development Strategy
The first step in successful economic development is to develop a clear and competitive positioning strategy. Economic development agencies around the world are in competition for investment dollars and focusing on industries of the mind and green sustainable development.

Investment Recruiting

Foreign Direct Investment is a key element in successful economic development. Geo Strategy Partners leverages its worldwide offices and industry knowledge to research industry sectors, contact decision-makers, and develop and execute recruitment strategies for target markets.

Business Expansion and Retention

In the eagerness to attract new business, economic development agencies often overlook their existing business base. Geo Strategy Partners brings its industrial and business-to-business expertise to help development organizations with expansion and retention programs.

Economic Development Programs

Geo Strategy Partners can help you design, develop, and deploy economic development programs. Our services include program management, road shows, in-bound investor missions, b2b matchmaking, trade promotion, and more. We can serve as your representative office in North America.

Economic Development

Inbound Investment
A big part of economic development is about attracting new industry and capital. Geo Strategy Partners is experienced in industrial recruitment, having implemented investment attraction programs around the world.

Expansion and Retention

Too often economic development programs focus on attracting new businesses while ignoring established businesses.

Industry Growth Clusters

A sound economic development strategy should involve key industry growth structures. Economic development is about strengthening the regional economy and to do so require building in all elements of the supply chain and infra-structure.

Marketing and Promotion

Currently Geo Strategy Partners manages economic development for international agencies that look to us to market their region and recruit investment.

Economic development is defined as a program, group of policies or activity that seeks to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for a community by creating and/or retaining jobs that facilitate growth and provide a stable tax base.

Economic Development Programs

How does a location get greater advantage from their economic development “spend?”

Drawing Your Map of the World

Enter the office of the chief economic development strategist for any location in the world and you will find the same map.