VISION

The Southern Tier West region will become a region whose economy is globally competitive, is dynamic and growing, and provides meaningful and sustaining employment for its residents. The Southern Tier West region will transform its regional economy into a regional-net-export-surplus, knowledge-based, innovation-based economy that is more internally self-sufficient, i.e., that is less dependent upon the extra-regional economy. The Southern Tier West region will maintain and cultivate the value-added regional-net-export-surplus sectors of the regional economy – be they manufacturing, service, or agricultural – in industry clusters and occupation clusters in which our region enjoys a competitive or niche advantage, in which there is opportunity and capacity for innovation, and in which there is significant growth potential.