Partner

Economic Development

Mel Layne
Partner/President, GAVEA
Lancaster, CA 93534
County: Los Angeles
http://www.aveconomy.org/

Organization:
Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance (GAVEA) is a private, nonprofit organization, founded to ensure that the greater Antelope Valley region maintains a well-funded and sustained program to attract, retain and expand business opportunities in the area. It serves as an economic development corporation (EDC) for the area, promoting the region to prospective businesses as well as working with the existing business community on retention and attraction programs. GAVEA is a partner on two WIRED projects.

Tasks:
Project 1.3 - Inventory of Key Innovation Assets:
- Identification and profiling of a minimum of 140 Innovation Assets (Federal and private Research and Development labs, military installations, college/university research centers and private companies).
- Add the 140 profiles to Connectory.com. Design an economic development resource database tool (California Innovation Corridor Innovative Asset Portal) to house the 140 profiles, as a Corridor Portal.
Project 3.1 - Workforce Analysis:
- With partners, generate a minimum of 200 company responses to the project survey, and develop and publicize a final report of the survey results.
- Develop strategies to address identified training and education gaps, and share strategies across the 9 regions and the entire Corridor.