Helping Communities Shine

Whether researching and implementing ways to shape a community's economic development plan or partnering to create ways to put people to work, CREC connects researchers and policymakers with:

     • Data training
     • Custom portfolios that aid regional competitiveness

Project Profile

Missouri Industry Clusters Study

State of Missouri
Start Date: Jan 2024 — End Date: Oct 2024

CREC assisted the state of Missouri in identifying and bolstering the state’s mature, emerging, and potential industry clusters. Specifically, CREC conducted economic base and value chain analyses to understand Missouri’s competitive advantages and identify sets of industries that demonstrate strong current or projected employment growth, worker earnings, concentration, and economic value. CREC supplemented these findings with an extensive stakeholder engagement process both to understand existing stakeholder dynamics and engagement levels within each cluster, and to generate stakeholder awareness and support around Missouri’s cluster development strategy. The results were synthesized into a comprehensive report that provides a strategic framework along with recommendations to drive future Missouri economic development.

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