197: Inside IMPLAN: Fifty Years of Economic Impact Analysis with Candi Clouse
Candi Clouse, PhD, Vice President of Customer Success and Education Services at IMPLAN, explains how their data-driven economic-impact model helps communities, companies, and policymakers understand how every investment ripples through jobs, industries, and households.
Econ Dev Show Podcast - Economic Development
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Show Notes
In this episode of the Econ Dev Show, Candi Clouse from IMPLAN joins Dane Carlson to unpack how the fifty-year-old economic-impact platform grew from a U.S. Forest Service project into the industry’s gold standard for analyzing how local and regional economies respond to change. She explains the basics of input-output modeling, how opening a single manufacturing plant can affect hundreds of related industries and household spending, and describes how IMPLAN empowers users to measure those effects in real time.
Candi also shares her personal journey from psychology to economic development, the surprising ripple effects of Ohio’s motion-picture tax credit, and how IMPLAN’s data helps states compare investments, balance urban-rural needs, and plan for reshoring and supply-chain shifts.
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