ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
INCENTIVES
THAT WORK

Delivering

Sound Decisions

We help communities use economic development incentives to achieve their targeted development goals. Smart Incentives works with economic development organizations and investment promotion agencies to manage incentive programs that are both effective and responsible. Here’s how we do it:

Analyze

incentive offerings and program design

Apply

the Smart Incentives 4×4 framework for program management

Offer

access to high-quality business intelligence, data, and analytical methods to guide decisions

Improve

evaluations and reporting on program results

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PPE and COVID-era economic development

States are continuing their efforts to address the PPE bottleneck and help their local manufacturers.

Opportunity Zones and Equitable Development

Structural impediments and marketplace hurdles mean additional incentives are often needed to make the Opportunity Zone program work as intended.

Revive. Recover. Restore. Insights from the C2ER Annual Conference

Economic and workforce development researchers exchanged ideas on responding to COVID-19 and charting the course ahead for their communities.

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Featured event

Smart Incentives events are an excellent way to stay up to date on industry leading knowledge. They are also a great way to network. Check out our featured event. We would love to see you there.

Entrepreneurial Recovery after COVID-19: Knowledge Base and Moving Forward in the United States

June 25, 2020

Join us at the Kauffman Foundation forum addressing the impact of the pandemic on entrepreneurship in the US and to discuss priorities, opportunities, and responses to move forward nationally.

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