Target Industries

The objective of the City’s Economic Development Strategy is to align the City’s most productive services and activities towards target industry groups and geographic districts.

The 2003 Strategy focused economic development activities on ten industry clusters. These industry clusters were targeted because of their historical strength in Oakland or because of their significant potential for growth as emerging industry groups. The Strategy also called for on-going industry analyses to provide continued support for planning, marketing, and development activities.

The list of Target Industry Sectors has primary economic drivers (high value added outputs with high economic multipliers), secondary, and lesser but also important economic activity.