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Finding Opportunity in Trying Times – Technologies to watch for FDI

Investment attraction has been challenging in 2025 with estimates suggesting that project numbers may fall by around 17% by the end of the year. Investors remain cautious, driven by a complex and interconnected mix policy uncertainty, trade tensions, rising protectionism, and sluggish demand. Yet behind the headline numbers, there are…

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Why Investment Promotion Agencies need to think more like a VC firm

Google’s acquisition of cloud security startup Wiz was big news last month. At $32 billion it was Google’s largest acquisition to date, and the biggest deal in cybersecurity history. For…

Wanderlust – how the head rules the heart when it comes to job relocation

The most common reason for moving to a new location is to create a better quality of life. But what does ‘quality of life’ mean? And how can investment agencies…

Bouncing back? We need to talk about recovery

United won an entertaining Manchester derby by two goals to nothing. Now, a little more than three months later, that date of March 8th seems like a lifetime ago: the…

How do you solve a problem like measuring FDI success?

As economic development professionals, we work with agencies in Investment Promotion and Export Promotion (IPAs & EPAs) from around the world, at both national and subnational levels. Many of our…

OCO Global GLOBAL PURSUES LATIN AMERICA GROWTH WITH NEW OFFICE IN COLOMBIA

News OCO Global GLOBAL PURSUES LATIN AMERICA GROWTH WITH NEW OFFICE IN COLOMBIA Press Release Immediate Release UK & Ireland Leading economic development consultancy, OCO Global, today announces it has…

OCO Global Selected for the Dubai Future Accelerator Programme

Press Release Monday October 16, 2017 Immediate OCO Global GLOBAL SELECTED FOR DUBAI FUTURE FOUNDATION’S ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME TO DRIVE BUSINESS INNOVATION AND INVESTMENT IN THE REGION Leading economic development…