A Data-first Approach
The Economic Blueprint Institute unlocks business growth and competitiveness by developing data-driven blueprints that catalyze action on the top priorities of the business community.
The EBI’s work is predicated on:
- Removing structural barriers to economic growth
- Investing in infrastructure that catalyzes regional growth
- Promoting technology development and adoption as a key competitive strength
- Advocating for regional coordination to drive the region’s global competitiveness
Major EBI initiatives
Together with our partners, EBI helps uncover the hidden stories and patterns in our regional economy, using those insights to empower and inform strategic business and government decisions. Explore our latest tools, trackers and reports.
A regional approach will help Toronto compete globally and attract talent.
Ten actions which can help the municipalities in the Innovation Corridor integrate better.
A web-based tool that measures how the Innovation Corridor is rebounding from the pandemic – with statistics about employment, mobility, consumer spending and other metrics.
Assessing five Districts based on key economic, physical, and workforce characteristics.
Home to nearly eight million people and more than three million jobs, the Innovation Corridor generates two thirds of Ontario’s GDP and a quarter of Canada’s.
The airport suffers from the challenge: attracting and retaining talent. This report details trends and presents a set of recommendations that form a go-forward workforce strategy.
More About EBI
When the Toronto Board of Trade added “Region” to its name a decade ago, it was in recognition of the increasingly borderless way we do business. A manufacturer’s supply chain rarely operates within a single municipality. Online shoppers in one end of a region can get same-day delivery from a business in another. People live in one city and work or study in another. Yet decisions that impact our economic competitiveness and the conditions for business growth happen in municipal silos and between different orders of government.
If the federal, provincial and municipal governments work together to direct investment, exporting and productivity would increase, unleashing the region’s economic potential, putting the Region on the map with other international jurisdictions who have adopted the power of regionalism to spur growth, as is the case with thriving economic regions in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Founding Sponsor
The Economic Blueprint Institute is supported by several partners invested in using data analysis to guide future growth.
