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Where those findings led us : Job Growth Initiatives <br /> L Objective : Fuel Quality Job Growth <br /> Create new companies Retain, expand, and <br /> and start-ups attract existing companies <br /> Key Itasca Support and enhance the productivity ■ Launch a Regional Economic <br /> Initiatives of the region's entrepreneurship Development Entity (REDE) <br /> ecosystem <br /> — Public and private partnership <br /> — Establish a Business Bridge <br /> — Scope of Activities <br /> — Institutionalize working relationships — Region's ED vision and strategy <br /> between the University of — Branding and marketing <br /> Minnesota and the Private Sector — Retention and expansion <br /> — Attraction <br /> Rationale ■ Region's entrepreneurial activity slowing ■ Opportunity to bundle and promote core <br /> in recent years assets <br /> ■ Prominent and critical gaps in funding ■ Other regions are aggressively <br /> availability, entrepreneurship culture, competing for jobs, while Twin Cities <br /> and regulations frequently not in consideration set <br /> 8 <br />