Gov. Deval Patrick's administration plans to finalize the first legally mandated economic-development blueprint in state history tomorrow.

"This will be our road map for economic development for years to come," Greg Bialecki, Patrick's business czar, told the Herald.

A 2010 state law requires governors to work during their first year following election with a newly created Economic Development Planning Council to craft a comprehensive growth plan for the state.The new council - whose members range from New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang to Hub developer John Fish - put together the first such plan over the past nine months or so.

Bialecki intends to present the finished blueprint to lawmakers tomorrow for approval.

However, a draft version provided to the Herald shows that the council is recommending 51 specific actions, from driving down health-care costs to doubling science and tech internships.

Specifically, the plan calls for:

• Picking three to five cutting-edge industries that business and government will work together on to promote in Massachusetts.

• Developing more apartments in a bid to drive down Bay State rents, leading to lower salary costs.

• Boosting union apprenticeships, community college courses and other training for "middle-skills" jobs - lab techs, personal-care assistants and other positions with more vacancies in Massachusetts than qualified candidates.

• Cutting employers' health-insurance premiums by moving half of all patient expenses to "value-based global-payment" systems.

Global-payment insurance doesn't pay doctors each time you visit, but instead gives physicians a flat annual fee to provide you with one year of health care.

The blueprint sets out lots of such goals, but is light on specifics as to how the state will achieve them. He said the council plans to reconvene in one year's time and publicly disclose "what we accomplished, what we didn't - and why."

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