The Empire Zone program of New York may be undergoing changes, and NYSHEI’s ARIA plan aims to be a part of the new model.
With the pending expiration of the current Empire Zone program, Dennis Mullen, Upstate President of the Empire State Development Corporation (ESD) is looking for new ways to encourage economic growth across New York.
The existing Empire Zone program is designed to foster job creation by lowering the cost of doing business in select geographic locations. NYSHEI asserts that with ARIA, New York can foster job creation by lowering the cost of doing business in select economic sectors, rather than neighborhoods. Taking up this argument, NYSHEI is echoing the recommendation of an independent report recently commissioned by ESD. That report, titled Delivering on the Promise of New York State: A Strategy for Economic Growth and Revitalization, makes a specific recommendation, that New York develop:
“A unified statewide economic development growth engine fueled by the development of a high-technology infrastructure. Such an infrastructure can be created through the combined efforts of the state, ESD, businesses, investors, and the academic and research communities.”
NYSHEI’s ARIA, as a information infrastructure that leverages academic and research libraries in support of science, technology, engineering and medicine, should be the solution that ESD is seeking.
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