Founder geography
What happens when the CEO can’t (or won’t) relocate Location strategy discussions tend to focus on cost, talent, and incentives. The variable that quietly decides outcomes — and rarely makes the spreadsheet — is whether the founder or CEO is willing to spend real time in the new location. There’s an honest version of this […]
How scaleups can punch above their weight with state governments
Access strategies that don’t require a Big-4 retainer Mid-market founders often assume meaningful government access is reserved for large investors with consulting muscle behind them. That used to be more true than it is now. Several state and provincial governments — across India, the Gulf, Eastern Europe, Latin America — have quietly shifted posture. The […]
Why the Fortune-500 location playbook doesn’t fit your $50M company
And what to use instead Most location strategy advice is written for large enterprises. The frameworks, the consulting decks, the case studies — all calibrated for a company with 50,000 people, a corporate real estate team, and enough scale to make any city economical eventually. For a $50M company adding 80 people in year one, […]
Reading an IPA pitch deck
What to trust, what to verify, what to politely ignore Every Investment Promotion Agency has a deck. The good ones are useful primers. None are neutral. You’re being marketed to by a team whose job is to bring you in. That doesn’t make the deck dishonest. It makes it incomplete. Knowing how to read it […]
Why tax breaks rarely move the needle for mid-market expansion
What actually does Walk into any investment promotion conversation and the brochure leads with incentives — tax holidays, capital subsidies, custom-fitted concessions. They’re not nothing. But for a $20M–$200M company, they’re rarely the thing that makes or breaks the decision. Here’s the math most CFOs eventually do but few do upfront. A five-year tax holiday […]
Why your gut is wrong about the “obvious” city
Pattern recognition is a poor substitute for fit assessment Every category has a default city. Software thinks Bengaluru or Austin. Auto components think Pune or Querétaro. Fintech defaults to Singapore. The defaults aren’t wrong, exactly. They’re just often wrong for you. Pattern recognition is the most expensive bias in location decisions. The cities everyone names […]
Should we expand now, or double down where we are?
A 7-question pre-flight check for scaleup CEOs Expansion looks like the obvious next step when growth is healthy. It rarely is. The question isn’t whether your business can grow somewhere new — it’s whether it should, and whether now is the moment. Most scaleups that struggle abroad didn’t choose the wrong location. They chose the […]
Nueconomy to Represent India-Origin Investment Mandates at SelectUSA Investment Summit 2026
Director Kavan Bhandary to engage US economic development organisations on behalf of companies evaluating American expansion Bengaluru, 28 April 2026 — Nueconomy Strategy Consulting, an India & Singapore-headquartered economic development and foreign direct investment advisory firm, will participate in the 2026 SelectUSA Investment Summit, the United States’ flagship event for inbound foreign direct investment, held this […]
Nueconomy Releases Inaugural ‘2026 FDI Risks’ Report Identifying Critical Execution Threats to Greenfield Investment in the Year Ahead
Advisory firm shifts focus from macro headlines to 12 firm-level factors that will determine 2026 investment outcomes BANGALORE/SINGAPORE – Nueconomy, an independent advisory firm specialising in corporate location strategy and investment promotion, today released “Navigating Greenfield FDI in 2026,” a forward-looking analysis of the operational risks threatening to derail announced foreign direct investment projects in the […]
APAC’s Must-Attend Robotics & Automation Forums 2026
The Asia-Pacific region continues to lead global momentum in robotics and industrial automation, driven by manufacturing scale, rapid digitalisation, labour constraints, and accelerating Industry 4.0 adoption and is expected to surpass 135B USD in market size by 2030 as per reports. From advanced smart factories in Japan and South Korea to fast-expanding automation demand across […]