ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
INCENTIVES
THAT WORK
Delivering
Sound Decisions
We work with communities to deploy economic development incentives as a means to achieve targeted development goals. Smart Incentives helps economic development organizations make sound decisions by instituting 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
Due diligence refresher
What you need to know about a company before making an incentive offer.
read moreFour principles to guide incentive use
Tim Bartik offers these suggestions to tame business incentive use.
read moreOpportunity Zone changes that would benefit small businesses
Program and technical fixes are needed to achieve the legislative intent of increasing growth capital available to firms.
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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.
C2ER Annual Conference – Columbus, OH
June 2-5, 2020
Join us at the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) Annual Conference. This year’s theme is The Roaring 2020s: Mobilizing Your Talent and Economy for the New Decade.

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