Innovations in Foreign Direct Investment Attraction

3. Building a platform to record FDI: IPAs should develop or procure a secure, reli-

able and easy-to-use platform to record inward investment projects in their location 

so that the data can be captured, stored and analyzed, including contact information 

on existing investors; 

4. Defining the key metrics to qualify FDI: IPAs should define what metrics they 

will use, first, to qualify that announced investments are realized, and second, to 

specify the role of the IPA in securing the investment. Example metrics are provided 

in a recent study published by Columbia University;

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