San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp in downtown San Diego's East Village is an independently funded nonprofit that mobilizes nearly 200 member companies around an inclusive strategy to maximize regional prosperity and global competitiveness across the San Diego-Tijuana binational megaregion. EDC's Research Bureau produces independent economic analyses of industry clusters, real-estate utilization, and workforce trends that inform the civic-leadership training pipeline at LEAD San Diego. From its offices at 1100 Market Street near Petco Park, a 22-person staff manages programs including the San Diego: Life. Changing. talent-attraction campaign, the Advancing San Diego workforce-alignment initiative, and the Inclusive Growth employer-driven equity effort targeting the wage gap between innovation-economy salaries averaging $149,000 and the low-income jobs that women disproportionately hold. EDC also operates World Trade Center San Diego — originally founded in 1994 and relaunched as an EDC affiliate in 2014 — which earned the U.S. President's E Award for Export Service and leads trade missions alongside the mayor's office to markets in South Korea, the Netherlands, and Latin America, complementing the small-business export mentoring at SCORE. EDC's most data-intensive initiative is its annual regional economic dashboard, which models job creation, capital investment, and talent-pipeline metrics across San Diego's three traded economies — military, tourism, and innovation — to guide policy decisions for the region's elected officials and corporate stakeholders.