Enhance Alberta's Competitive Advantages

To enhance Alberta's current competitive advantages, the strategy recognizes the importance of building on our existing knowledge-ready workforce and our competitive business climate, and to continue our investment in infrastructure.

  • A Knowledge-Ready Workforce

    • Improve ability to educate, develop, attract and retain knowledge workers.
    • Focus education and labour training on value-added requirements.
    • Continue to support recommendations in Prepared for Growth strategy.

  • A Competitive Business Climate

    • Ensure Alberta's tax strategies support the value-added strategy.
    • Enhance Alberta's regulatory environment.
    • Continue to attract global investment and projects to Alberta.
    • Improve access to equity capital.
    • Strengthen Alberta's financial services infrastructure.

  • Investment in Infrastructure

    • Prioritize investment in high priority institutional infrastructure.
    • Develop an integrated transportation system.
    • Improve connectivity by supporting Supernet initiatives.
Strategic Direction Expected Value-Added Outcomes by 2013

Ensure knowledge ready workforce

Further enhance business climate

Maximize benefits of infrastructure investments

  • Alberta continuously improves its competitive position internationally.
  • Alberta's labour pool will be sufficiently large and knowledge-ready to meet demand.
  • Alberta aligns its fiscal regime to support a knowledge-intensive, value-added economy.
  • Alberta's commodity sectors extract continued value through innovation, improved productivity and improved processes.
  • Alberta streamlines its regulatory processes while ensuring environmental protection.
  • Alberta leads in educational, transportation and connectivity infrastructure, thus maintaining a competitive advantage.

Date Updated: Oct 02, 2008
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