Summary Review

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Summary Review

• Rapid City, SD
• November 30, 2006

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Goal 1 Double Visitor Spending

• Q1 What are the strengths of the visitor
  industry we need to more effectively promote?
• Promote local events to local individuals
• National Parks/All Parks in SD they are
  accessible
• Black Hills as a destination

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Goal 1 Double Visitor Spending

• Q2 What are the challenges we are not
  addressing now or maybe facing in the future?
• Micromarketing target marketing
• Focus on niches
• Increase visitor numbers
• Personnel issues

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Goal 1 Double Visitor Spending

• Q3 What are the broader opportunities that SD
  needs to better use to our advantage?
• Develop comprehensive marketing plan and budget
• State Legislature communication

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Goal 1 Double Visitor Spending

• Q4 What are the limitations we are facing now
  and in the future?
• Growing year round industry
• Transportation
• Partnerships

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Goal 2 Increase GSP

• Question 1 What are the strengths we need to
  more effectively promote?

• A workforce that is trainable--a large segment is
  currently underemployed
• Promotion of low-population density as an
  attractive lifestyle
• Quality of Life Issues
• Recreational opportunities
• Large city services in fairly small communities
• Low property costs in relation to areas of
  similar geography

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Goal 2 Increase GSP

• Question 2 - What are the challenges we are not
  addressing now or may be facing in the future?

• Recognize that though we do have many
  cost-of-living advantages, some other factors are
  national standards that must be balanced
• Retaining and graduating more of our high-school
  and college students
• Making transportation more cost-effective
  (especially air service)

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Goal 2 Increase GSP

• Question 3 - What are the broader opportunities
  that South Dakota needs to better use to our
  advantages?

• Encourage the people that come here for
  educational reasons to stay and pursue long-term
  career opportunities
• Promote the overall pay-scale in relation to
  South Dakota cost-of-living

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Goal 2 Increase GSP

• Question 4 - What are the limitations we are
  facing now and in the future?

• An aging workforce
• Very low unemployment rates
• A general lack of entertainment opportunities for
  young professionals
• A need to provide greater resources for
  entrepreneurs small start-up businessesespecial
  ly sources of investment capital

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Goal 3 Become RD Leader

• Question 1 - What are the strengths we need to
  more effectively promote?
• Partnerships - build on public and private
  partnerships
• Workforce keep more young people here
• Financial wealth keep in the state
• Process for selecting research areas and
  connecting to SD needs
• Research Focus

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Goal 3 Become RD Leader

• Question 2 What are the challenges we are not
  addressing now or may be facing in the future?
• Develop Angel network and early stage equity
  funding
• Recruiting experienced researchers and technical
  workforce
• Technical training to support research flexible
  training programs
• Develop systemic K-21 programs to develop the
  technical and business entrepreneur and workforce
• Develop and maintain (K-12 and Higher Ed) aging
  education and research facilities
• Retain more graduates
• Create the relevance for science and math for
  varying levels of technical careers
• More Science and Math teachers
• Disseminate the benefits of RD throughout the
  state

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Goal 3 Become RD Leader

• Question 3 What are the broader opportunities
  that South Dakota needs to better use to our
  advantages?
• Research Commercialization training/mentoring
  program
• Greater collaboration between K-12, Higher Ed
  and Business
• More effective technology transfer
  infrastructure
• Identify research opportunities based on unique
  SD resources
• More effectively market SD capabilities
• Regional collaboration opportunities (in-state
  and Midwest)
• More effectively utilize existing opportunities
  Human Capital (early retirees and networking with
  South Dakotans throughout the world)

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Goal 3 Become RD Leader

• Question 4 What are the limitations we are
  facing now and in the future?
• Transportation
• Geographic Isolation
• Cultural Limitations
• Fear of Change
• Small population
• Globalization
• IT Infrastructure Internet 3
• Financial
• No Vet School

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Goal 4 Best Quality of Life

• Question 1 - What are the strengths we need to
  more effectively promote?
• Have good quality of life in South Dakota
• Low unemployment rate people willing to work
• That we dont have gated communities we have a
  safe, accessible and open communities and
  neighborhoods
• Need to enrich the lives of current SD residents
  and not always focus or promote to residents of
  other states
• Availability and accessibility to participate in
  arts and cultural events

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Goal 4 Best Quality of Life

• Question 1 - What are the strengths we need to
  more effectively promote?
• Incredible potential for healing Tribal Affairs
  office is a good start
• Incredible beauty of the state
• Pride of the local communities willingness to
  do what it takes to keep the rural communities
• Increase in public and private arts
• SD is history rich and has easy access
• Great higher education at reasonable price

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Goal 4 Best Quality of Life

• Question 2 What are the challenges we are not
  addressing now or may be facing in the future?
• Affordable housing lack of housing and lack of
  decent landlords need more advocates for the
  renters
• Lack of funding for preservation
• Nonprofit cultural heritage centers need
  assistance to help them participate
• Volunteerism is down but nonprofit entities
  cannot afford to pay trend to push entities to
  become for profit
• To encourage the youth to volunteer

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Goal 4 Best Quality of Life

• Question 3 What are the broader opportunities
  that South Dakota needs to better use to our
  advantages?
• Retirement (looking for something new) and youth
  are potential volunteers ability to increase
  the number of volunteers
• Gambling on Indian land lack of ability to
  expand is a challenge but economic opportunity
  exists if expansion is allowed
• Enhance scenic byways and control the number of
  billboards
• Allow tax exemption for entities that enhance the
  quality of life

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Goal 4 Best Quality of Life

• Question 3 What are the broader opportunities
  that South Dakota needs to better use to our
  advantages?
• Opportunity for the small town to showcase what
  they have challenge is to get the tourist there
• Badlands park generates tourists interest to
  further learn history and culture of the Native
  Americans
• Tourists will come back to SD for reasons other
  than their initial visit need to readily
  provide the information

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Goal 4 Best Quality of Life

• Question 4 What are the limitations we are
  facing now and in the future?
• Tourists want to travel on reservations
  limitations are places to eat and stay
• Competition between communities
• Focus too much on one aspect and lack of
  communication
• Aging generation

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