How to plan economic development based on consensus among board members, stakeholders and the community as a whole; How to create a unified vision for the future; How to get everyone to agree; What kind of techniques to use for building consensus among stakeholders who represent different values and interests; How to organize the team; How to prepare an economic assessment; How to determine goals and objectives; How to identify projects; How to form the Strategy; How to implement the strategy effectively; How to set realistic benchmarks; How to monitor; How to adjust. Steps.
Economic Development Funding & Financial Engineering
How to develop funds for supporting your Regional Plan for Development: Too many things to do with too limited funds; Possible Sources for funding; How to build consensus among regional partners for more aggressive funding strategies; How to build efficient system for mobilization of available regional private capital to participate in your projects; When you need to reach out to Banks. Steps.
How to deal with Banks as Financial Sources for your regional development: European Investment Bank, Local Banks: Which bank to work with; How to develop the Project; How to contact the bank; How to present the project; In-house vs. outsourced project documentation development. Steps.
How to manage the variety of other financial instruments available: How to use EU Financial Instruments; How to build public fund for local development; Steps.
How to build PPP which can change the image of your city: How to build efficient system for attracting local partners; Who are your prospect local partners, type of partnership; Legal forms of partnership; Distribution of interest among partners; How to build consensus among different interests. Steps
How to manage the process of Financial Engineering:
The Team, number of people, profile, management system, system for encouraging professional excellence, in-house vs. outsourced financial engineering. Steps.
EU Funding, Building your own Regional Operational Programs
EU Funding: European Fund for Regional Development: Experience, Performance, Most successful projects, Most successful approach, Program period 2014 – 2020
How to build your own Operational Program. The team, management, Selecting the projects for approval, coverage, activating local actors, dealing with the central government, dealing with the European Commission, dealing with variety of interests in the region, In- house built Operational Program vs. Centralized Operational Program. Steps
Strategies for attracting investors
Attracting business to Regions in transition.
Marketing Your Region: How to market your region on the global scene; How to build the team; How to do your intelligence; How to secure funds for marketing your region; How to decrease the budget for marketing; Steps.
Developing industrial parks and clusters for accommodating investors: How to plan the Park; How to coordinate central governmental, local and private actors, How to secure the land, How to decrease the funds needed for infrastructure for your Park; How to attract investors to your Park, How to negotiate with interested investors; How to deal with Investors after they come; How to coordinate between local educational institutions and the need of investors from specific skilled workers Steps.
Attracting business to Developed Regions
Marketing Your Region: How it is done by one of the richest American Regions?
Real Estate Development and Reuse
Real estate development. How to make market and site analysis; How to plan what to be built; How to structure the approval process; Understanding project pro forma; How to assess political feasibility, How to solicit developers; How to balance public and private interest while dealing with developers. Steps.