Converting Creativity into Economic Opportunity

RTS helps regions around the country measure the impact creative enterprises are having on their economy and craft new strategies to build upon their unique assets.…

Creating Sustainable Rural Economies

The greening of our economy can create new opportunities in regions that have been traditionally left behind. RTS is working with the Ford Foundation and other…

Advancing Economic Opportunity Through a Strong Workforce

In all its projects, RTS works with communities to develop strategies that create good high paying jobs. For instance, our support to the Rapides Foundation in…

What is RTS?

Helping People and Places Innovate, Collaborate, and Prosper.

Regional Technology Strategies, Inc. (RTS) builds and accelerates regional competitive advantage by encouraging higher value-added commerce performed by highly skilled people.

A 501 (c) 3 non-profit corporation, RTS assists governments, foundations, and other organizations in creating, implementing, and evaluating innovative regional economic development strategies. In its work, RTS pays special attention to historically disadvantaged regions and populations.

The Daily Yonder on the Arts in Mississippi

February 3, 2012

Our founder Stuart Rosenfeld has been working with the state of Mississippi over the last couple of years both looking at their creative economy as an economic and cultural engine but also at designing programs and policies to build a stronger creative economy within the state.

New US Commerce Department report on US competitiveness

January 6, 2012

The America COMPETES project of the US Commerce Department focuses on how we can out innovate, out educate, out connect, out produce and out empower the rest of the global economy. The project is a two year effort with an impressive advisory board. It culminated in the final report “The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of [...]

The Investment & Innovation Forum focuses on our recent work on Mississippi’s creative economy

December 16, 2011

The Investment & Innovation Forum is a Canberra, Australia-based organization created by Rod Brown of the Cockatoo network. More info on them is available here.
With members in 33 countries, the focus is on best practices in innovative economic development. The latest issue of their Cockatoo newsletter highlights our recently released work for the State of [...]