The immediate goal of the project is to identify what timely, local, actionable information tools can measure and describe the impact of NSF/TIP investments in critical and emerging technologies. The focus is documenting the impact of investments in Artificial Intelligence on jobs and skills so that stakeholder communities can proactively support the creation of high-wage, high demand, high skill jobs. This project represents the first phase of a large project. It is intended to build community consensus about the data, methodology and measurement necessary to support production of timely, local, and actionable information tools. The projects particular focus is to describe the regional effects of research investment on high wage, high demand, high skill (H3) jobs with and regional economic development associated with NSF AI Institutes and Regional Innovation Engines. There are three workstreams The first is to design an expansion of a successful pilot, called the Industries of Ideas, that developed jobs and earnings data for the state of Ohio. That pilot, initiated in 2023 and funded by NSF was based on the Nobel Prize winning endogenous growth framework of Paul Romer – the economics of ideas.[2, 3]. The second is to identify and engage a stakeholder community that can identify how the addition of education and skills data could inform key questions about the link between science investments and jobs and economic activity. The third is to work with data users and producers to provide input into the validity, usefulness, and scalability of the proposed data and measures. The project will result in the building of a community that can both support the development and validation of measures, methodologies, and data so that useful information tools can be produced. It will also result in a roadmap and minimum viable product demonstration prototypes that can be used in Phases 1 and 2 to both expand the scale of the Ohio project to multiple states and its scope to fully integrate education and skills data in comprehensive workforce measures and products informed by the stakeholder communities.