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2009 Oregon Business Plan Initiatives
The Oregon Business Plan envisions the growth and success of leading-edge, traded sector industries – clusters of allied businesses that ring up sales outside Oregon and create well paying jobs that buoy local communities. While the destiny of Oregon's industries is in their own hands, it is critical that Oregon's leaders pursue initiatives to create the environment that helps our traded sector clusters succeed. The policies we recommend and support can improve the culture of innovation, the work skills of our people, the quality of life that makes Oregon attractive to talented people, and the infrastructure that businesses need to be productive and competitive. Among the 12 initiatives and dozens of action items
introduced at the first Leadership Summit in 2002, many have already
been achieved, including key investments in innovative micro and
nanotechnology research, needed road and bridge improvement, a federal
forest Over the course of this effort, we have developed a new architecture for the Oregon Business Plan Initiatives. This architecture includes core initiatives, targeted initiatives and cluster initiatives. Read more about these initiatives below and click on one to track its progress. Core Initiatives: Core initiatives address fundamental challenges and opportunities in the Four P's for Prosperity, as well as a Fifth P, Public Finance. In surveys and focus groups with Oregon industry leaders, these are the issues which come up as top priorities across all of Oregon's diverse industry clusters. The Steering Committee believes Oregon must make progress on these initiatives order to achieve sustained job and wage growth. These initiatives involve dozens of partners and players and many individual action items. Progress is documented and reported on this site and at the annual Summit. Productivity Agenda Increase access, reduce costs and improve quality of health care. Productivity, People, Public Finance Improve Oregon's transportation infrastructure. Productivity, Place, Public Finance
Expand Oregon's capacity for economic innovation. Pioneering Innovation, Productivity, People, Place People Agenda Increase the education attainment and skills of all Oregonians. People, Productivity, Pioneering Innovation The success of each of these initiatives is dependent upon a public finance system that provides stable funding for critical public services and that creates strong incentives for economic growth. Public Finance Agenda Improve public finance and service delivery. Success is also dependent upon Oregon's ability to brand and market itself to talented workers and companies outside of our borders. Branding/Marketing Agenda Brand and Market Oregon More Aggressively (last updated in 2006) Targeted Initiatives: Targeted initiatives are immediate opportunities for Oregon to increase economic competitiveness. They may be able to be completed in a shorter time period than core initiatives, and they may not have obvious impacts on all industry clusters. Nevertheless they provide a key opportunity to either mitigate an economic weakness or capitalize on a key economic advantage for Oregon. Simplify and streamline regulation and permitting (last updated 2006) Productivity Take a fresh look at land use Pioneering Innovation Agenda
Brand and market Oregon more aggressively. Improve federal forest health. Develop a marketplace for ecosystem services. Make Oregon a global center for sustainability learning and training. Cluster Initiatives: Cluster initiatives are priorities of individual industry clusters or groups of clusters. 2009 Cluster Initiatives are included in the Oregon Business Plan Policy Playbook, Initiative and Cluster Guide. The Oregon Leadership Summit we provide a platform for Clusters to communicate their priorities to policy leaders, and cluster leaders meet throughout the year via the Oregon Cluster Network. Track Oregon's Economic Progress In addition to progress on the specific initiatives, you may be interested in tracking Oregon's progress on broader economic indicators. Here are some resources that can be helpful: The Competitive Index measures how Oregon stacks up to other states in key measurements of people, place, pioneering innovation and productivity. The last update of the Competitive Index was completed in 2007. The Competitive Index is a joint project of the Oregon Business Plan and the Oregon Progress Board. The Oregon Progress Board is the keeper of the Oregon Benchmarks that measure progress toward the goals of Oregon Strategic Plan, Oregon Shines II. The Oregon Business Plan framework is built around the goals of Oregon Shines II. The Progress Board is currently facilitating the development of an updated strategic plan, Oregon Shines III. The Oregon Innovation Index measures Oregon's progress in Pioneering Innovation and compares Oregon to other states on a number of indicators related to the innovation economy. The Innovation Index is produced by the Oregon Innovation Council. The creation of the Oregon Innovation Council and the Innovation Index were recommendations of the Oregon Business Plan in 2005. The Oregon Labor Market Information System provides information on wages and employment, over time and across industries.
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