Targeted Industries

FHREDI's Targeted Industries and Florida's Industry Clusters

Florida's Heartland has identified Targeted Industries that are an ideal fit to our workforce, education and transportation infrastructure.

• Alternative Energy: biofuels and solar power
• Agribusiness
• Green Building Components, Design and Manufacturing
• Healthcare and Sciences
• Niche Manufacturing
• Logistics and Distribution

Florida's Industry Clusters

Florida's leading industry clusters play a key role in the state's continued economic success and competitiveness. Innovative organizations in key Florida industries, such as life sciences and aerospace, find the nurturing environment here for developing state-of-the-art technologies, while sophisticated financial and professional services firms prosper thanks to Florida's skillful workforce and the state's business-friendly environment. Such conditions have been critical to Florida's success in building science, technology and professional industry clusters and to preserving the state's status as a key player in the Innovation Economy.

Florida's strengths lie in the following key sectors:

Clean Energy:

  • Solar Energy
  • Biomass Energy/Biofuels
  • Fuel Cells & Hydrogen
  • Ocean Energy
  • More than Renewables

Life Sciences:

  • Biotechnology
  • Medical Device Manufacturing
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Health Care

Information Technology:

  • Modeling, Simulation and Training (MST)
  • Photonics/Optics
  • Digital Media
  • Software and Computer Systems Design & Integration
  • Computers, Microelectronics and Precision Device
  • Telecommunications

Aviation & Aerospace

  • Passenger and Freight Air Transportation
  • Support Activities for Air Transportation (air traffic control, operations)
  • Flight Training
  • Search, Detection and Navigation Instrument Manufacturing
  • Aerospace Products and Parts Manufacturing (aircraft, engine and engine parts, auxiliary equipment)

Homeland Security & Defense

  • Photonics and Optics
  • Modeling, Simulation, and Training
  • Marine Science
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology

Financial/Professional Services

  • Banking
  • Insurance
  • Engineering
  • Legal
  • Accounting
  • Consulting

Manufacturing

  • Traditional manufacturing industries, such as plastics, food processing and printing
  • Emerging technologies industries, like electronics, medical devices and aviation/aerospace

Emerging Technologies:

  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology
  • Marine Science

 

Corporate Headquarters

Facilities that support international, national or regional (multi-state) operations for relatively mature companies with distributed operations and centralized strategic and management activities. In Florida, Corporate Headquarters are eligible for certain incentives.

Source on 6-21-2010: http://www.eflorida.com/ContentSubpageFull.aspx?id=52