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To utilise regional identity and character in encouraging the location and development of clean technology and natural resource initiatives in the region.
· Identify key components of regional character and identity that underpin economic development.
· Capitalise on IDA dispersal policy to attract inward investment.
· Use local excellence, innovation and lifestyle elements in promotion of region as an investment location.
· Utilise the development of the West Cork Technology Park and the profile of the Fuchsia Brand initiative as core development drivers.
· Promote the suitability of the region as investment location for companies re-locating from urban areas.
- Build on initial research undertaken in the pilot programme in order to develop a Quality of Life Index which would identify and assess the key parameters integral to a comprehensive socio-economic analysis of the region
- Utilise the Quality of Life Index to benchmark the region in socio-economic terms against other selected rural investment locations.
- Utilise the Quality of Life Index for the promotion of the region, particularly focussing on attracting overseas and the re-location of indigenous investment
- Document and promote the active skills within the region, emphasising in particular the disciplines, expertise, IT and language skills that support the development of local Internationally Traded Services.
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Promote the region as a cradle of innovation, artistic expression and
technical excellence
- Number of overseas enterprises establishing commercial operations in the region
- Value of IDA investment to the region.
- Use of Quality of Life Index in formal marketing presentations to investors
- Proportion of the local labour force/labour force participation rate contained in the active skills register.
- Development activities arising from the West Cork Technology Task Force.
- Number of indigenous firms relocating or establishing branch operations in the region
- Value of Enterprise Ireland investment in facilitating same
- Number of formal marketing presentations to external investors.
- Employment growth in IDA/Enterprise Ireland supported IT inward investment.