They include: To promote spatially focused investment strategies that concentrate resources in specific geographical areas through a "crowding in" process.

This refers particularly to the Wild Coast SDI, and to the East London and Coega Industrial Development Zones; to focus attention on exploiting and extending the Province's competitive and comparative advantages; for example in the motor vehicle and motor components industry, and in processes which add value to local primary production; to improve the competitiveness of existing economic activities.

Particularly in terms of promoting inter-industry collaboration through the industrial cluster process; to facilitate access to new opportunities in the small and medium-sized business sector; to promote and encourage new investment in the Province.

Especially [though not exclusively], foreign direct investment; to ensure that appropriate infrastructure investment is undertaken in order to improve the prospects for growth-generating investment by the private sector; to promote a co-ordinated approach to human resource development and capacity building.

In order to ensure a measure of alignment with industry skills needs; and to undertake a process of internal organisational and administrative re-structuring in order to improve the Department's efficiency, competence and service delivery capacity.