California Regional Economies- Industry Cluster of Opportunity Users Guide

The two-part California Regional Economies- Industry Clusters of Opportunity User Guide is designed to assist workforce and economic development professionals with the key steps needed to develop economic data sets that can be used to drive decision-making across many areas including strategic planning, investment decisions and policy changes. The guide provides a step-by-step methodology of how to identify industry clusters of opportunity, and how to use this information for planning, policy and program investment decision-making. Part I of the User Guide shows how to develop regional clusters of opportunity dataset and provides a step-by-step guide to analyzing and interpreting the data. Part II of the User Guide explains how to put a cluster of opportunity dataset to work, using the data to inform decision-making and to mobilize cluster employers as full partners in workforce and economic development.