Business Success and Job Availability: Strategy 1.5

Create and attract new bio-agriculture business opportunities based on emerging and market-ready technologies.

Actions within two years:

• Create formal and informal alliances that can intrinsically drive opportunities to the County (e.g., OARDC, OSU Extension, OSC, PolymerOhio).
• Conduct public awareness campaign consistently through several means (e.g., traditional, speakers network, demonstration days, student engagement).
• Identify where Crawford County should position itself in the bio-agriculture supply chain.
• Begin discussions with emerging, funded and existing business and industry leaders in bio, bioproducts, polymer and other related industries.
• Create "best-practice" forums and events to specifically invite and draw attention to Crawford County regionally, nationally and globally.
• Assess workforce needs; work collaboratively to create appropriate coursework at the secondary, career technical center and community college levels.

Actions within five years:

• Develop strategic land use plan that balances community with bioagriculture development.
• Assess needed worker population to address industry requirements.
• Actively market the opportunity to reside, play and/or work in Crawford County - Continue public awareness campaign.

Actions within ten years:

• Create succession plan of knowledge.
• Create a possible road map of 50 years that creates the infrastructure to allow the County to embrace emerging technology.