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Investment intelligence
Reading the signals that come before a company expands into a new place.
Locus uses data to understand how places attract investment and grow — and turns it into evidence for the agencies, governments and institutions that shape economic development.
Every investment decision is a decision about a place. Yet the data that could guide those decisions is scattered, closed or never analyzed. Locus exists to change that.
Locus studies the forces that bring investment to a territory — and the ones that keep it away — using company registries, trade flows, investment announcements and territorial data.
The work is written for the people on the front line of economic development: investment promotion agencies, governments, development banks and the analysts who advise them.
What makes a place competitive for investment — and what can public institutions do about it?
Public and open sources: company registries, trade statistics, investment announcements, labor and territorial data.
Clean, link and geocode records into consistent, reusable datasets across countries and years.
Econometrics, spatial analysis and machine learning — matched to the question, never the other way round.
Clear findings for practitioners, with methods and data open for anyone to reproduce.
No sponsor sets the conclusions. Funding and affiliations are disclosed with every publication.
Methods, code and datasets are published whenever the sources allow.
Every study ends with what an agency or government can do differently.