Michigan does not operate cohesively in areas such as:

• Regional collaboration
• Labor-management relations
• Partisan politics

Michigan's economic development strategy emphasizes:

• Making direct investments in individual companies vs. building a healthy business climate that benefits all businesses
• Incentivizing site location decisions to overcome an uncompetitive cost structure
• Targeting narrow business sectors in a dynamic, ever-changing economy that is unpredictable

Support collaborative regional growth strategies by prioritizing incentives & grants to those areas

Accelerate growth by supporting innovation and entrepreneurship across all sectors

• Increase entrepreneurial education
• Create a distinctive university-business partnership focused on attracting business, growing sectors and retaining talent
• Grow the pool of venture capital in Michigan
• Expand business incubation & acceleration services

Develop strategies to grow broad business sectors that leverage Michigan's key assets (e.g.: energy, engineering)