In its original conception the Kerr Tar Hub was broadly envisioned as a tech-intensive, locally driven regional park potentially providing a wide variety of infrastructure and service offerings intended to attract and support the location of emergent firms from within selected RTRP targeted industries. The Kerr Tar Council of Governments recognized that implementing the Hub concept required more specific information on the industries to be targeted and the manner in which the Hub would serve the location and growth needs of such companies.
Beginning in May 2005, the UNC Center for Competitive Economies (C3E) undertook an extensive research effort to deliver this critical implementation information. The attached report contains the following findings.