Crossing the Next Regional Frontier
Why Regions Matter
How can regions participate in and take advantage of today's knowledge-based innovation economy? This website provides tools to facilitate relevant insights and help answer the fundamental questions underlying regional development in today's changing economy.
The purpose of these tools is to help a region guide strategic discussions about where to invest scarce resources to build prosperity for the next generation. More specifically, these tools enable regional leaders to focus on 2 sets of core assets that create prosperity: brainpower and innovation.
A grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration has supported this work by the Purdue Center for Regional Development, the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, Strategic Development Group, Inc., the Rural Policy Research Institute, and Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc. The project received additional support from the State of Indiana through the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs.
This website was produced and is maintained by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Questions and comments about the site may be emailed to ibrc@iupui.edu.