Related to Northern Kentucky University’s College of Informatics
Current Program
Since 2005, Northern Kentucky Tri-ED has developed and cultivated a long-term marketing program designed to target companies and develop new business for the community. This approach includes a comprehensive targeting strategy that includes:
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Direct marketing
Appointments with active companies
Relationship building with select companies
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Monitoring of developing opportunities
We will also continue with our target focus on:
Advanced Manufacturing
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Professional Office
Select Technology Sectors
High-Tech Distribution/Logistics also remains a key sector to Northern Kentucky
Phase II
Northern Kentucky’s proposed area of focus for the next business development phase includes the sectors below as it relates to informatics and crosses over into our target industry sectors. Sectors are analyzed in order to identify emerging business opportunities as well as a match with NKU’s College of Informatics’ expertise.
Business Informatics: Enterprise resource planning; logistics.
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Information Systems
Archival Informatics
Social Informatics
Medical and/or Health Informatics: Intersection of information science, computer science and healthcare.
Biomedical
Pharmacy
Laboratory
- Nursing Informatics
- Veterinary Informatics
Geo - Informatics: Information science meets geosciences and engineering.

Geographic Markets
Northern Kentucky’s business development program has identified and focused on markets we believe we can compete aggressively against based on factors such as cost of business; quality of life; company fit within Northern Kentucky’s business community; and other predictive events (location of target sector, lease expiration, m&a activity, sales growth or decline, employee increase, sector, incentive environment, tie to region, etc.).
Markets of Focus include:
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island (NY-NJ-PA) MSA
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA MSA
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA MSA
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA
Chicago-Naperville-Jolliet, IL-IN-WI MSA (site consultants)
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH MSA (site consultants)
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA MSA
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA MSA
Dallas-Ft. Worth-Arlington, TX
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA
Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI MSA
Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT MSA
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI MSA
San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA MSA
Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH MSA
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ MSA
STL MSA
Kansas City, MO-KS MSA
Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA
Dayton, OH
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