1.1. Enhance Delaware’s image as a center of international business through targeted marketing and promotion activities.
1.2. Cultivate relationships and networks with business executives for the recruitment of new businesses to Delaware, especially in target clusters and sectors.
1.3. Build awareness of Delaware as a destination for investment among site selection consultants and commercial real estate brokers.
1.4. Promote Delaware for foreign direct investment through a global platform.
1.5. Conduct high level research and data analysis to support DPP business development activities and to inform the public on the economic performance of the state.
1.6. Coordinate with state and local partners to build a statewide business retention and expansion (BRE) system.
2.1. Create a dynamic look and brand for the DPP.
2.2. Engage in regular communications activities designed to tell the DPP story to key external and internal audiences in the state.
2.3. Conduct an ongoing investor development program through an outreach effort to both existing and potential investors in the DPP.
2.4. Work with the Delaware State Chamber and the Division of Small Business to establish a Delaware Economic Development Council to serve as a forum for state and local economic development organizations to share information regarding state and local economic development activities, successes, and concerns.
2.5. Coordinate statewide responses to investment RFPs. As the state’s chief marketing and business development organization, DPP will be generating new outside investment leads and in most cases will be the primary point of contact for businesses interested in investing Delaware.
2.6. Work with other state partners to develop a set of procedures for awarding financial incentives to companies it is recruiting to Delaware.
2.7. Support ongoing efforts to develop, retain, and attract talent in Delaware.
3.1. Build a statewide entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem asset map to help entrepreneurs, start-up companies, and investors to navigate the state’s existing resources and networks.
3.2. Enhance the depth and diversity of technical assistance and networking resources available to the state’s startups and second-stage companies.
3.3. Raise awareness of Delaware’s entrepreneurial success stories.
3.4. Work with the state chamber and other partners to advise the State on needed policies to support the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
3.5. Market the state to risk capital funds in other markets.
3.6. Target and recruit growing early-stage firms in other markets.
