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

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Four principles to guide incentive use

Tim Bartik offers these suggestions to tame business incentive use.

Opportunity 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.

Aligning state and local incentives

Lessons learned for avoiding conflict between state and local government when offering incentives.

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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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