About Us

The Dakota Institute is a non-profit private applied business and economic analytical and modeling enterprise serving public and private decision makers in South Dakota, the Northern Great Plains and their regional markets and economic sectors.

As a trusted ongoing source of economic and business intelligence and analytics, the Dakota Institute will

• track, interpret and forecast business and economic conditions, including on the workforce/labor-market, useful to business leaders and public officials,
• disseminate information on current business and economic conditions and trends,
• give guidance on, and insight into, opportunities for stronger economic and business growth and diversification across the business cycle and long-run, and
• have economic impact capabilities and conduct both open and proprietary economic and business modeling, analytics and forecasts.