About This Project
Start Date:
Feb 2024 — End Date:
Jul 2024
CREC works with the Office of Entrepreneurship in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) to develop a set of metrics in support of entrepreneurship and innovation in the state of Nevada. The work is being done in two phases. Phase one involves identifying and reviewing available data for inclusion in a data dashboard. Phase […]
Jobs and Employment Data Exchange (JEDx)
Start Date:
Dec 2023 — End Date:
Sep 2025
The JEDx initiative is an effort coordinated by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation that seeks to develop a public-private approach for collecting and using standards-based jobs and employment data across states. CREC is playing an advisory role by helping to inform: the ongoing development of a standardized data model for employment and wage data […]
PEW CHIPS
Start Date:
Aug 2023 — End Date:
Apr 2024
CREC will work with Pew to plan the convenings necessary to facilitate the interstate and collaboration between federal and state officials to the facilitate the necessary evaluation, coordination, and collaboration elements of CHIPS.
GO Virginia
Start Date:
Nov 2023 — End Date:
Oct 2024
The Talent Pathway Initiative (TPI) is a project of Go Virginia Region 7 that will bring together perspectives of leaders in business and education to address Northern Virginia’s workforce needs in computer services, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies. The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) and George Mason University (GMU) Center for Regional Analysis (CRA) will […]
DDAA Research Supplement – Telling the Story of Local Development Districts
Start Date:
Jun 2023 — End Date:
Dec 2023
The Local Development Districts (LDDs) are a fundamental element of the three-legged Federal, state, and local stool that supports development in Appalachia and the work of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). They rely on a variety of funders and stakeholders to support their efforts, which requires educating them on the successes of the LDDs. The […]
National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), EDD COP
Start Date:
Jan 2023 — End Date:
Apr 2027
CREC is partnering with the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), University Economic Development Association (UEDA), National Association of Regional Councils (NARC), and First Nations Development Institute on a five-year effort to build and nurture the Economic Development District Community of Practice (EDD CoP). Led by NADO, with support from the U.S. Economic Development Administration […]
Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Collaboration Network (ManTech)
Start Date:
Jun 2023 — End Date:
May 2024
CREC is partnering with E3 Analytics, Erys Consulting, Anthology Communications, American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative (AMCC), DoD’s Manufacturing Technology Program (ManTech), DoD’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation (OLDCC), and University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering to facilitate a collaboration network for supporting advanced manufacturing and building the future defense workforce. Through this project, CREC […]
New York State (NYS) Tax Incentives
Start Date:
Jan 2023 — End Date:
Jun 2023
The New York State Tax Incentive Project was an initiative to better understand the state’s business offerings, their effectiveness, and how they compared to other states’ programs. The initiative selected 26 incentives programs that it wanted to focus its research efforts on. CREC was subcontracted to handle the third part of the request, focusing on […]
Inventory of Public and Private Sources of Education and Workforce Data
Start Date:
Mar 2023 — End Date:
May 2023
CREC created an inventory of public and private sources of education and workforce data to increase the capacity of the public Workforce and Labor Market Information System (WLMIS) to provide relevant data for education and training providers. The inventory considered a wide array of data sources that measure important WLMIS concepts, including: Households and People […]