Iowa’s Regional Partners...
Iowa’s Regional Innovation Grantee Consortium
RIG is an abbreviation or acronym for Regional Innovation
Grant. It is a “limited” National Emergency Grant (NEG)
resource. RIGs are designed to assist state workforce
agencies or boards to develop comprehensive, integrated,
strategic regional plans.
RIGs provide regions with a conceptual framework and focus
on current or future unanticipated economic events. It’s
important for regions to get involved in the strategic
planning process because increasingly, they are the “front
lines” of the global competition battlefield.
When regions work together, companies, workers, researchers,
entrepreneurs and governments create a competitive
advantage. This comes from their ability to transform new
ideas and knowledge into advanced, high quality products and
services – innovative strategies designed specifically for
each region by each region.
Successful regions demonstrate their ability to network
innovative assets in order to generate growth and prosperity
in their local economy.
Link to Iowa RIGs website
http://www.iowaworkforce.org/rig/index.html
Join our regional partnership
There are two ways to join the Iowa Regional Innovation
Grant Consortium. You may contact the coordinator for the
Consortium directly at the following telephone or email
address.
Kim Didier, Director
Workforce Innovation and Regional Economic Development
Iowa Association of Business and Industry
904 Walnut Street
Des Moines, IA 50309
(515) 280-8000, ext. 576
(515) 971-6953 (Cell)
E-mail: kdidier@iowaabi.org
What region am I in?
Map of Iowa’s RIG sites
http://www.iowaworkforce.org/rig/rigs.htm
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