Why This Effort?

Since it was launched in 2002, the Oregon Business Plan has provided the strategic framework for Oregon's business and elected leaders, working together, to build a stronger, more competitive state economy.

The Oregon Business Plan envisions the growth and success of leading-edge, traded sector industries – clusters of allied businesses that ring up sales outside Oregon and create well paying jobs that buoy local communities.

While the destiny of these industries is in their own hands, it is critical that Oregon's leaders pursue initiatives to create the environment that helps our traded sector clusters succeed. The policies we recommend and support can improve the culture of innovation, the work skills of our people, the quality of life that makes Oregon attractive to talented people, and the infrastructure that businesses need to be productive and competitive.

Among the 12 initiatives and dozens of action items introduced at the first Leadership Summit in 2002, many have already been achieved, including key investments in innovative micro and nanotechnology research, needed road and bridge improvement, a federal forest health bill, expansion of development-ready industrial lands, and a coordinated state branding campaign.

View the framework and who is behind the Oregon Business Plan.

View the initiatives for the Oregon Business Plan.

View the policy documents & progress reports for the Business Plan.

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