A quick follow-up to earlier posts regarding the cutting-edge (bleeding edge?) GrowFL state-wide economic gardening program. A news story tweeted by consultant Eric Canada notes that: The gardening program is proactive, rather than reactionary, allowing economic development councils to have a more nurturing role, helping businesses grow instead of just waiting for it to happen. The […]
You Don’t Know What You Have Until It Is Gone (#EconDev Edition)
[v=rnX9ScL6LLw] Noted on the Economic Gardening mailing list: GrowFL Participant Credits Economic Gardening Program for Helping Secure Major Defense Contract Cocoa-based Coastal Steel Inc. Will Add More Than 55 Jobs as a Result of Contract with Lockheed Martin FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jul 12, 2011 – COCOA, Fla. – Thanks in part to the entrepreneurial ecosystem cultivated […]
Rational Man Exposed
[v=yWxXvzyb7uY] I’ve lurked on the Econ-Dev mailing list for many years. Chris Gibbons runs the ground-breaking economic gardening program for Littleton, Colorado. In an exchange yesterday, a list member (the list actually migrated to Google Groups awhile ago, but anyway…) recommended a new book called Econned, by Yves Smith. I have no idea if […]
National Economic Gardening Conference
News Release For Immediate Release ANNUAL NATIONAL ECONOMIC GARDENING CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN ORLANDO MAY 19/20 Attendees Will Learn How to Develop Viable Programs to Help Strengthen Their Communities, Regions and States (Orlando, FL) — The Florida Economic Gardening Institute in conjunction with the University of Central Florida will host the 9th Annual National […]
An Intelligent Community Framework
Improved productivity and growth can basically come from two sources: 1. You make more stuff, or 2. You make stuff better. The first option falls into the commodity trap. To overly simplify, there’s probably somebody somewhere on this big wide world that can make what you make, and do it cheaper. The second option is […]