Strategic Impact Initiatives
Strategic Impact Initiatives are project-based efforts designed to unlock high-potential opportunities through a discrete group of coordinated stakeholders. These initiatives align with organizational priorities, include support from committed partners, attract diverse funding sources, and deliver measurable economic impact.
While Cross-Sector Collaboratives provide an open forum for convening partners, sharing knowledge, and generating ideas, Strategic Impact Initiatives are action-oriented projects driven by a core group of stakeholders to advance targeted outcomes that accelerate broader economic growth.
Team Pennsylvania has identified the following Strategic Impact Initiatives for the near term:
Active Strategic Impact Initiatives
AI/Robotics Value Chain
Accelerating AI, robotics, and manufacturing in Pennsylvania by supporting component manufacturing growth across the supply chain to maintain competitive advantage and capitalize on Pennsylvania’s AI and industrial strengths.
AI Scaling in Manufacturing
Building on significant new investments from hyperscalers, the AI Scaling initiative aims to reduce barriers to entry, support early adopters, and share learnings across the manufacturing sector, helping position Pennsylvania as a national leader in AI-driven manufacturing competitiveness.
Energy/Data Centers/AI
Capitalizing on Pennsylvania’s position as leader in artificial intelligence and increased demand for supercomputing power; opportunity to bridge the rural-urban divide by positioning smaller data centers in rural communities and piloting innovative energy technologies to power them.
Low-Carbon Concrete
Positioning Pennsylvania to lead the next generation of low-carbon concrete by mobilizing public procurement, unlocking circular supply chains, and accelerating market adoption of cleaner, high-performance building materials that strengthen competitiveness and domestic production.
Nuclear
Pennsylvania has the energy assets, the infrastructure, and the opportunity to invest in our nuclear industry for the sake of our energy security with a growing domestic and global market for clean power and nuclear technologies.
Pennsylvania Forestry
Advancing innovation across the hardwood value chain by expanding markets and strengthening infrastructure to enable scalable, demand-driven use of low-value wood and mass timber.
Emerging Strategic Impact Initiatives
AgTech
With a robust agricultural research ecosystem and world-class AI and robotics infrastructure, Pennsylvania is well-positioned to lead in innovations that improve efficiency across farming, processing, and manufacturing.