b'Supporting Strategies 2. Enabling Business and sustaining growth To optimise the potential of Kildare and its businesses to innovate, invest, promote and sustain growth and employment, across our County and throughout ourcommunity. 2.1Grow employment by supporting existing SMEs growth and innovation plans, while maintaininga supportive environment that attracts and supports entrepreneurship. 2.2Work with strategic partners to deliver infrastructure and promotional campaigns to attract, and expand foreign direct investment and major indigenous companies. 2.3Support and promote growth opportunities for the equine industry in recognition of its central place as a unique feature of Kildares identity.2.4Collaborate with local providers, communities and strategic agencies to develop, package and promote our tourism offering and leverage our location as part of Irelands Ancient East,on Dublins Doorstep. 2.5Consult with communities and collaborate with partners to enhance the public realm and design of our towns and villages and deliver projects and programmes that revitalise the local retail economy and rural hinterlands. 2.6Support and promote growth opportunities for the Agri-food & Drinks sector in recognition of its strength as a key economic driver in County Kildare.2.7Develop and leverage opportunities for community, cultural and economic developments through Twinning and strategic engagement with our Diaspora.2.8Continue to work with partner agencies to support rural communities through skills development, enabling broadband delivery and supporting employment opportunities aligned to a rural lifestyle and setting. 2.9Working in collaboration with all education stakeholders, to encourage and support skill development and talent retention required by employers in all sectors.2.10Support creativity, innovation and enterprise in Kildare through effective stimuli for localentrepreneurship to leverage the innovative capacity of the County and retain talented people.2.11Promote key aspects of the Green Economy including the adoption of appropriate alternative, sustainable and smart energy solutions including co-working hubs.41'