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public library: Libraries may have information about locations as defined in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary, copies of community profiles, for example. Libraries that operate with a best practice approach are mindful of the purview of area and local economic development representatives as well as that of their chambers of commerce that supply location data to prospects. The best libraries online have knowledgeable staff available to guide users to appropriate contacts for obtaining additional information as well as assistance to prospects. Regional and local public libraries as well as those offering business and enterprise development information and location data at institutions of higher learning are listed among location data suppliers in the .network resource file: About Economic Development, Page 4. The Enterprise and Economic Development Library online has sections dedicated to free-access business resources, enterprise development and locations for site selection. Use the search engine at the top of this page to Google the Web for location data suppliers. Search the Web for a library with information about a location of interest to you: Copy and paste the following italicized suggestions to the search
engine above or use the Google/.network search
engine. Keep
quotation marks where you see them. Substitute the location identity of a place of interest to you for the word location. CLICK
HERE for additional suggestions
of keyword
searches of interest to .network users.
Page up to suggestions for searching for institutions of higher learning with missions similar to that of The Network. find a local chamber of commerce: Chambers of commerce are generally well know for being in position to supply information about their locales. Many chambers house area and local development representatives. Others have alert staff who know how to guide members of the .network user group to area and local economic development representatives. Chambers are listed among location data suppliers. Use the suggested line #5 above to search the
Web for a chamber of commerce for a place
of interest. The following links are also useful in searching
chambers of commerce. To help you search for a library (or chamber of commerce) in a place of interest we offer the following suggested keyword combinations. Try copying and pasting at the top of this page. Economic Development Tomorrow ... a 1991 publication of the American
Economic Development Council, and source
of the quote: ... economic development
practice may be considered as a specialized form of marketing. economic development market research ... the objective collection and analysis of a set of data about a place for the purpose of understanding its location area as a market and, in addition, for the purpose of organizing the data either for advertising and promotions or distribution to prospects. This specialized area of market research also includes the systematic process of collecting and analyzing statistics and other factual information about locations considered as competitors in attracting economic development opportunities. Those who are responsible for promoting locations should have an agenda of market research covering all that they represent as well as the places with which they compete. The practice of economic development within a free-enterprise system is carried out in an environment of competitiveness. The site selection process, which is a source of economic development, is sophisticated to the extend that research is called for to support comparative analysis. It behooves the local development representative to understand how to conduct and use both types of research for the purposes indicated in this paragraph. See the article, Need Market Research? Check Your Local Economic Development Organization (2007), by Anita Campbell at the Small Business Trends website. Another definition of economic development market research covers
the process of seeking opportunities. In this case the market is where
the prospects are
located. The research is a systematic collection and analysis of information
related to target
industries economic development marketing research Given that an association of US economic developers at one time choose marketing as the operative word to describe what practitioners do, the important role of research is emphasized here. Economic development marketing research is an activity that contributes to making informed decisions about where to commit limited resources for attracting the attention of prospects to a location. Marketing research, in general, is the development of useful information for identifying and defining opportunities to igniting interests in something so as to facilitate its positioning in commercial transactions. Marketing research has to do with putting something, such as funds, in place for an intended affect. Market research has to do with understanding a place that is an environment for commercial transactions in terms of specific products or services. Economic Development Futures Web Journal location: tourism marketing is a form of economic development: Tourism
emerging as a catalyst for economic development is the
title of a July 28, 2007 article by Rich Harrill that that appeared in
The Greenville
News, Greenville, SC. Harrill stated that the nature of tourism employment
is changing, ... shedding it low-wage
image through entrepreneurship spawned by tourism-related industries
and the development of a tourism-oriented
government sector. This is encouraging to economic
development practitioners who see themselves as facilitating
the creation of opportunities for higher paying jobs in the locations they
represent A review at the University of Michigan website of preparation and results in a community before and after the 2002 Winter Olympics titled Park City , Utah 's Successful Combination of Tourism and Recreation Activities Creates Healthy Economic Development (by Nicki Sitko) is a resource for those interested in sports and tourism as economic development. Two additional sports/tourism related resources are an online announcement of a 2005 seminar in Zagreb, Croatia and the enterprise and economic development guide developed after the 1996 Summer Olympics discussed as follows: Tourism
as Economic Development: A Brief Guide for Communities and Enterprise
Developers was published as a paper for sharing
resources with .network users as
well as serving as the concluding report to the Georgia Tourism Division
following its writer's development of a network for
prospect development in advance of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. This
resource addresses the fundamentals
of economic development. For
example, it points to the
fact that economic
developers are specialized marketers of locations. The
same can be said for those engaged in tourism
promotion. They are specialized marketers Reed Business / Manufacturing.net: Reed Business, www.reedbusiness.com,
is a resource free subscription magazines
courtesy of Manufacturing.net For your information www.manufacturing.net is
a website that is part of Advantage Business Media which was founded
with the acquisition of Reed Business Information's New Product Division.
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is where it all began in March 1989. A physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, wrote a proposal for information management showing how information could be transferred easily over the Internet ... (source of quote). CLICK HERE for examples of data brokers. An online information service provider is distinctly different from a data broker by .network definition. Page up to commentary about the role of libraries as online information service providers if interested in the collection of location data by enterprise developers and site selectors. Using the phrase "target industry studies" in combination with the words economic development to search the Web at one time returned a number of links to websites of educational institutions which have outreach programs for helping local communities. Mostly we found links to websites of locations seeking economic development which had target industry studies in hand. Our search found an abstract from a resource paper with discussions about ... the commonalities and differences in local and regional economic development (LRED) across England, Northern Ireland, Australia and the US. The abstract stated: ... we found statistically significant negative relationships between agency effectiveness and engaging in tourism promotion activities, training minority groups, and conducting target industry studies, though this may reflect a correlation between certain activities and problematic economic environments. Use the search engine at top of this page to Google the Web, for example, by copying and pasting the keyword combination economic development "target industry studies" in the search box, keeping the quotation marks intact. CLICK HERE for an example of colleges and universities with programs of outreach into communities as mentioned under libraries as information services online, perhaps, in position to supply economic development data. Part of the commentary on the example is a quote from Toledo/Lucas County Economic Development and Innovation Plan. The source of the quote was discovered during a search online for the keyword combination: economic development target industry clusters university studies. See the definition of target industry in the .network glossary and the above paragraph for more about the kind of services colleges and universities provide for places seeking economic development prospects. As is the the policy under our search promise, the following information for making contact with one of the members of the consulting team that produced the 2004 Toledo/Lucas County Economic Development and Innovation Plan is freely provided for the .network user who made the request. The information comes from the Global Registry of Contacts. George, Henry, George Partners (formerly Hammer, Siler, George Associates) (A
.network user has requested contact data for a member the consulting team
and the
client for which the plan was developed.
As
is , The following
information is provided from the GRC database .TOLEDO-LUCAS COUNTY PORT
AUTHORITY)HAMMER • SILER • GEORGE • ASSOCIATES
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