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CoreNet Global

An association formed in 2002 by a merger of the International Development Research Council and NACORE International. CoreNet means COrporate Real Estate Network.

IDRC

The International Development Research Council was first the Industrial Development Research Council. The acronym was used for both associations during the last half of the 20th century.

IAMC

The IDRC model was used in 2002 to organize the Industrial Asset Management Council which is managed by Conway Data.

NACORE International

The association was incorporated in 1974 as the National Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives after reorganizing and renaming the National Association of Location Analysts NALAN, which was organized in 1969. The focus was on bringing business leaders together so that they could network about real estate information.

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what is an industrial enterprise developer?

... someone who manages the risks of new-venture startups, expansions, or relocations that have to do with processing, manufacturing, warehousing and/or distribution. In the language of the stock market ... (industrial enterprises include) all firms that have businesses that are not classified as utility, transportation, or financial companies (source). In the language of The Network industrial enterprise developers create new operations and improve existing ones that can achieve production excellence. They are found among small machine shop owners as well as decision makers with leading manufacturers. They are entrepreneurs as well as managers of fast-growing industrial companies. As are all enterprise developers, industrial enterprise developers are members of the target audience of The Network.

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Bob Glover, was an associate member of both IDRC and NACORE. He regularly attended regional and national meetings of both associations during a 30 year period, beginning in the early 1970s and ending when they become CoreNet Global. He commented at the time he created The Network that ... (the two associations) were preeminent among the regional, national and international organizations in which I held memberships in terms of providing the education, experience qualifications to be a manager of state-level programs for prospecting and site location services that led to the economic development of communities. At the core of it all was networking. Although there was a constant stream of studies on the academic side of how to make economic development happen (example), the practical experience gained from IDRC and NACORE, in combination with area and local economic development networks, left no doubta skillful business networking approach trumps all other forms of learning or gaining experience, or promoting, and is that which brings home the bacon every time as compared to indirect forms of marketing. Economic development has been defined as a specialized form of marketing.

Before shutting down, IDRC published the following statement on one of its webpages:

Perhaps the most important networking is that which is done on a person-to-person basis between individuals with special skills and experience ...

The above quote was part of the organization's online listing of its associate membership; i.e. IDRC maintained a virtual site selection network for enterprise developers.

Associate member listings in the final editions of the IDRC and NACORE International membership directories were added to the Global Registry of Contacts. The database was bolstered with names and addresses of several thousand resource and service suppliers' engaged in enterprise and economic development. Records continue to be entered and maintained in the database today without cost or obligation. CLICK HERE if you are interested in applying for a record or updating one that you may already have in the database.

definition of industrial enterprise developer:

... manages the risks of new-venture startups, expansions, or relocations that have to do with processing, manufacturing, warehousing and/or distributionmore about what an enterprise developer does. In the language of the stock market ... (industrial enterprises include) all firms that have businesses that are not classified as utility, transportation, or financial companies (source). In the language of The Network industrial enterprise developers create new operations and improve existing ones that can achieve production excellence. They are found among small machine shop owners as well as decision makers with leading manufacturers. They are entrepreneurs as well as managers of fast-growing industrial companies.

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