Outreach

The Department's outreach in regional and community economics seeks to apply scholarly research to the needs of practitioners by providing value-added information, analysis, and education. The Department's comparative advantage lies in the creation of specialized databases and teaching of innovative decision-making methods that use these databases to address local and state economic issues. These databases may include geographically referenced data organized in a geographic information system (GIS), regional input-output (I-O) accounts, social accounting matrices (SAMs), local government revenue and expenditure data, and other databases. 

The following outreach programs are a joint product of the Department, OARDC, and OSU Extension:

	The Ohio Business Retention and Expansion Program
	Using GIS as an Economic Development Tool

	Economic and Fiscal Analysis of Local and State Projects and Policies
	Retail Trade Area Analysis
	C.William Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy

Program for Cooperative Development

  Briefings in Community Economic Development: Monthly electronic briefings on topics in community economic development will be avialable at this site.  

In addition to these programs, the OSU Extension Community Development Program offers a variety of programs and publications that assist communities in achieving their goals.  

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