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Many foresight and research teams in regional governments and economic development agencies support their local government and businesses…
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Many foresight and research teams in regional governments and economic development agencies support their local government and businesses with environmental scanning.
But often, this is still largely manual work. Desk research, expert calls, a workshop once a year, a report ahead of a key decision: each one a fresh effort, built by hand.
That method has two costs. It absorbs a large share of a small team's time, and the picture it produces rests on whichever sources happened to be reachable that week rather than on a systematic reading of the evidence.
The shifts that reshape a region's industrial base rarely announce themselves. They build in scattered reports and conversations long before they look significant, travel across regions and by the time the pattern is obvious, the room to shape a response has narrowed.
Continuous, data-based tracking closes that gap, so the region can get prepared for the time things change.
Business Upper Austria works with more than 2,200 partner companies and co-leads NEFI, Austria's industrial decarbonisation network.
With Trendtracker they continuously track regulatory and socio-economic shifts across the region and Europe, as well as own thematic priorities in more depth.
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