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Guiding Questions
a. Is this goal right?b. Are the key issues the right key issues?
c. Are the indicators meaningful and useful?
d. Are there numeric targets for this goal that make sense?
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EI7-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
0 Increase local business ownership and entrepreneurial activities.
Key Issue - Why do we care? What is the problem?
1 Local entrepreneurs fuel the local economy
Key Indicators - How are we doing?
1 Number of new business filings per year
2 Number of businesses with less than 10 employees
Other/Supporting Indicators
0 Number of post-secondary science and engineering students
0 Total $'s awarded in SBIR and STIR Grants
0 Total $'s awards in NIH grants
0 Total $'s leveraged by research and development tax credits
1 Dollars spent in locally owned businesses
0 Value of goods and services imported and exported
1 Gross licensing revenue from commercialized university research
1 Number of locally owned banks
Add indicator: "durability" -
Add indicator: "durability" - percentage of new businesses that last longer than x years.
added: Patents and SBDC
added: Patents and SBDC Consults to Key Indicators
What is locally owned?
What is locally owned?
Again, where? and would the
Again, where? and would the info be reliable?
Where would we get this?
Where would we get this? What is 'locally owned'? Is this taxable expenditures? Gross receipts?
I'd like to know this number
I'd like to know this number too. But is there a reliable way to get it?
Does this mean
Does this mean incorporations? something else?
This doesn’t seem relevant to
This doesn’t seem relevant to the Goal.
(even though IBM provides 46%
(even though IBM provides 46% of the manufacturing employment ?) Maybe we should say that “local entrepreneurs are a key component to growing the regions economic base”?
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