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<br />This business assistance center acts as the expert in regional resources for <br />“Our region is <br />entrepreneurs and business owners of all kind. It is the heart to Lane County <br />business development. <br />blessed with <br />tremendous <br /> Create a business assistance center where entrepreneurs, business <br />? <br />owners/managers can go, whether virtually or physically, to get <br />assets and a <br />information and assistance related to business management and growth <br />wealth of <br />within our region. <br />local <br />A LEARNING COMMUNITY <br />ingenuity, <br />and this <br />Summit participants expressed the needs to improve the basic and applied skills <br />Summit is an <br />of young people in the region as they prepare to enter the labor force. Active <br />partnerships between the business community and local schools were suggested <br />opportunity <br />with a focus on work experience through internships and mentorships. This type <br />for us to work <br />of business-to-school partnership represents a real opportunity to provide young <br />workers-to-be with valuable economic life skills. <br />together to <br />best <br /> Improve the basic and applied skills of young people in the region as <br />? <br />they prepare to enter the labor force. This effort must begin with school <br />capitalize on <br />readiness for kindergarten, ensure high school graduation, include <br />those assets <br />vocational/technical training, and internships and mentorships, and <br />provide paths to higher education. <br />and develop <br />creative <br />A FOCUSED REGION <br />strategies <br />Our regional values need to drive the creation of our regional economic identity. <br />and actions <br />Marketing a regional identity will increase our area’s ability to maintain a <br />to move our <br />sustainable competitive advantage in a global marketplace. Our identity <br />economy <br />influences the regional behavior in the marketplace and describes our <br />community’s values to businesses and talent around the world. A regional <br />forward.” <br />identity will help us align our strategies, our resources, our partnerships, and our <br /> <br />assets for economic success. <br />Eugene <br /> Create a regional economic identity, capitalizing on assets that will <br />? <br />Mayor Kitty <br />identify our region as a significant economic center. <br />Piercy, from <br />NEW PARTNERS <br />her opening <br />remarks at <br />New investment coming to the region will be an important complement to the <br />growth of local business in providing for the region’s future economic health. A <br />the <br />Regional <br />sustained effort to reach out to prospective investment, respond to their <br />Prosperity <br />questions and needs, and successfully recruit new businesses to the area is an <br /> <br />Summit. <br />important part of a sound economic development strategy. Many of these efforts <br />are already in place. The region also has an important partnership with the State <br />of Oregon to address national and international markets. <br /> <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />