An investment promotion agency (IPA) is most often a government agency (or occasionally a non-profit organization functioning similar to a chamber of commerce

Chamber of commerce

A chamber of commerce is a form of business network, e.g., a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to advocate on behalf of the business community...

) whose mission is to attract investment to a country, state, region or city. The agency does this by introducing investors with local real estate developers and other commercial service companies, providing userful statistical information such as average wages and by managing any investment incentives that the city, state or country may offer to companies which invest there.

List of Country Specific Investment Promotion Agencies

• INVEST IN SPAIN
• ISPAT Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey
• ACC1Ó Competitiveness and Investment in Catalonia
• Investment Development Authority of Lebanon
• Invest in Georgia
• Apex-Brasil Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency
• Jordan Investment Board
  Jordan Investment Board
  Jordan Investment Board is the national investment promotion agency of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The organization was founded in 1995, the year the Investment Promotion Law was introduced, and is responsible for acquiring and providing professional consulting services to foreign and...
  
  
• China Investment Promotion Agency
  China Investment Promotion Agency
  China Investment Promotion Agency is the investment promotion agency of PR China. It is in charge of "Inviting in" and "Going global" two-way investment promotion work in line with China's economic strategies and is engaged in cooperation with international economic organisations, foreign...
  
  
• Pakistan Board of Investment
  Pakistan Board of Investment
  Board of Investment is the investment promotion agency of Pakistan. The Board of Investment assists companies planning to invest in Pakistan or to expand their Pakistani operations. The Board of Investment is a member of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies .- History :The...
  
  
• Invest Victoria, Australia
• Invest in South Australia
• Invest in Australia
• Bancomext
  Bancomext
  The Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior or "Bancomext" is a Mexican state-owned bank and export credit agency created in 1937 to promote and finance small and medium exporting Mexican companies in international markets as well as providing Consulting services for small and medium companies wishing...
  
  
• Invest in Canada
• CzechInvest - Czech Investment Agency
  CzechInvest
  CzechInvest was established in 1992 by the Ministry of Industry and Trade as the Investment and Business Development Agency of the Czech Republic. The agency contributes to attracting foreign direct investment and developing domestic companies through its services and development programmes...
  
  
• Germany Trade and Invest
• InvestUkraine
  InvestUkraine
  InvestUkraine is a state enterprise operating under the State Agency for Investment and National Projects , which serves as a One Stop Shop for investors and delivers investments consulting services in Ukraine...
  
  
• Industrial Development Agency
• SARIO - Slovak Investment Agency
  SARIO
  SARIO, Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency is a government agency established in the Slovak Republic in 2001, which works under the direction of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic.SARIO operates internationally and domestically; its officials are regularly invited...
  
  
• Invest in America
  Invest in America
  Invest in America is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration to promote foreign direct investment to the United States, the only such U.S...
  
  
• SIEPA - Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency
  SIEPA
  The Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency is a government agency in charge of assisting foreign investors and buyers, and strategic promotion of Serbia as a country internationally...
  
  
• Invest in Sweden Agency
  Invest in Sweden Agency
  Invest Sweden is a government agency promoting business and investment opportunities in Sweden to foreign investors. The objective is to stimulate an increased flow of foreign direct investments to Sweden...
  
  
• Trade and Investment Promotion Agency
• UK Trade & Investment
  UK Trade & Investment
  UK Trade & Investment is a UK Government department working with businesses based in the United Kingdom to ensure their success in international markets, and encourage the best overseas companies to look to the UK as their global partner of choice ....
  
  
• ZACORDA
• Invest in Denmark
• The Jordan Investment Board
• Mexican Association of Industrial Parks
• Invest KOREA
  Invest KOREA
  Invest KOREA, the national investment promotion agency of South Korea and a member of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies , was established within the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency or KOTRA with the sole purpose of supporting the entry and successful establishment of...
  
  
• Invest Para (Brazil)
• Invest in Colombia
• “UZINFOINVEST” the Information Support & Foreign Investments Promotion Agency
• Invest in Greece
• Invest in Israel

List of Investment Promotion Agencies Associations

• WAIPA
  WAIPA
  The World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies is an international Non-governmental organization hosted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development that acts as a forum for investment promotion agencies, provides networking and promotes best practice in investment promotion....
  
  - World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies

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