Economic Development America

Economic Development America is a quarterly magazine produced through 2007 as a result of a partnership among the Economic Development Administration (EDA), IEDC, and the National Association of Regional Councils (NARC). The publication is not currently produced, but back issues are available below.

To subscribe or to access more recent issues, contact the U.S. Economic Development Administration.

Individual articles of back issues can be read online, while entire issues may be downloaded and printed.

Spring 2007: The Power of Information: Using Data to Create and Refine Your Economic Development Strategy

• How a Dose of Data Reality Can Enhance Your Region’s Competitive Positioning
• Fiscal Impact Analysis Creates a Win-Win for Projects and Communities
• Economic Gardening: Using Information to Help Your Entrepreneurs Grow
• Using Location Intelligence to Attract Retail to Underserved Areas
• Targeting a Portfolio of Clusters
• Quantifying the Creative Economy
• Economic Developer “Dinosaurs” Vs. Fast Internet Information
• Your Regional Knowledge Economy Strategy: Is it Succeeding?
• “We Have the Site, But We Need the Workforce!”

  » Download a hardcopy of Spring 2007 (1.7 Mb Kb PDF)

Winter 2007: Growing and Keeping Your Region’s Businesses

• Putting the Business Back in Business Retention
• SmartBusiness – The Smart Way to Help Halifax Businesses
• Relationship-Building and Business Retention
• Making the Most of Statewide Business Retention, Expansion, and Modernization Efforts
• Chicago’s New Direction: Leading the Race in Global High-Performance Manufacturing
• Five “Musts” for Business Incubator Success
• Growing and Keeping Your Region’s College-Educated Workers
• Learning to Learn: What to Do Different in the New Modern World
• Competing in a Global Age: New Skills for Our Nation’s Students
• Business Retention on a Budget: Billings’ BEAR Program Leverages Volunteers

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Fall 2006: The Economic Developer's Toolkit

• Business Retention: Helping Companies Compete in a Global Economy
• Predicting Corporate Behavior: Why Companies Relocate or Expand
• Economic Development Targeting: Laying a Sound Foundation for Your Strategy Plan
• A City’s Tools for Downtown Development: Much More Than Money
• Building the Ideal Financing Toolbox
• Clawbacks in Economic Development: Policies and Practices
• Community Colleges: The Economic Developer’s Workforce Partner
• Using a Balanced Scorecard to Measure Your Economic Development Strategy
• Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS) Summary of Requirements

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Summer 2006: EDA's Excellence in Economic Development 2006 Award Winners

Excellence in:

• Economic Adjustment Strategies: The City of Pueblo Rebuilds Its Economic Base
• Technology-Led Economic Development: North Dakota State University Research & Technology Park
• Enhancing Regional Competitiveness: Yielding Positive Results in Southwestern Pennsylvania
• Community and Faith-based Social Entrepreneurship: St. Patrick Center Programs Build Permanent, Positive Change
• Rural Economic Development: Yuba-Sutter EDC
• Innovation: Kentucky’s Technology Transformation
• Urban or Suburban Econoic Development: Tinley Park Builds on 35-Year Plan for Success

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Spring 2006: Global Gateways

• Helping States Encourage Exporting
• Building Businesses on the Border: The Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory As an Engine of Economic Change
• Trade Adjustment Assistance: Helping Firms Compete in the Global Economy
• World Trade Centers: Gateways to the Global Marketplace
• The U.S. – Mexico Border: Integrated Economies
• A Sea Change in Ocean Shipping
• Intermodal Opportunities in Appalachia
• America’s Dependence on Flight-by-Night Operators: The Underappreciated Role of Air Cargo in the U.S. Economy
• Making Charlotte an International City

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Winter 2006: Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovative Leadership

• President Bush’s 2007 Budget Request for EDA: Good News for Rural America
• A Framework for Developing Rural Entrepreneurship
• Supporting Rural Entrepreneurship: What Can States Do? What Should They Do?
• Jack Schultz: A Man with 7 1/2 Keys to Small Town Success
• The HomeTown Competitiveness Initiative
• Incorporating Entrepreneurship into North Carolina’s Economic Development Infrastructure
• Entrepreneurship on Tribal Lands
• Innovation Commercialization in a Rural Region: The Case of Greater Johnstown, Pennsylvania
• Kentucky Leadership Program Coaches Entrepreneurs
• Wyoming Business Camp Encourages Youth to Make Their Own Jobs

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Fall 2005: Building a 21st Century World-Class Workforce

• Talent Development Is a Key Ingredient for Economic Development
• What Economic Developers Should Know About Workforce Development and Community Colleges
• Workforce Development: A Region’s Key Business Retention and Expansion Tool
• New Governance Structures for Aligning Local Economic and Workforce Development
• Putting Inner Cities To Work
• The Career Readiness Certificate – An Idea Whose Time Has Come
• Manufacturing Skills Certification: A New Fast Track for Regional Innovation
• Preparing Middle and High School Students for Careers in Science and Health
• Help Wanted: Smyth County, Virginia

  » Download a hardcopy of Fall 2005 (983 Kb PDF)

Summer 2005: Report of the Strengthening America's Communities Advisory Committee

• EDA Responds to the Gulf Coast
• Rising to the Challenge
• Executive Summary
• The Committee's Charge and Process
• A Challenge for the 21st Century
• Findings, Guiding Principles, and Recommendations
• Leadership in Action
• Advisory Committee Members

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Spring 2005: Communities in Transition

• BRAC - The Denver Experience
• Rural Sourcing, Inc.: Bringing High
  Tech Jobs to Rural America
• Revitalizing Brownfields: New Benefits from Old Sites
• Kalamazoo's Economic Revitalization
• Broadband Access in Rural Areas
• Georgia Communities Bounce Back
• National Leadership Through Regional Cooperation: Tennessee Valley Comes Together to Create Jobs of the Future
• Using Department of Energy Assets for Community Benefit
• Enterprise Facilitation: Growing Entrepreneurs One Contact at a Time

  » Download a hardcopy of Spring 2005 (1.23 Mb PDF)

Winter 2005: The Marriage of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Building Innovation-Driven Regional Economies in Small and Mid-Sized Metro Centers
• Creating Systems for Entrepreneur Support
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Rural America
• Kentucky’s Rural Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program: An In-Depth Look at How It Works
• The Importance of Networks and Capacity Building in Technology Transfer and Commercialization
• Best Practices in University Technology Transfer
• A 21st Century Model for Engineering Education
• Turning the Corner: Trends in Angel Investing
• Growing Ohio’s High Performance Economy
• Replanting the Economic Forest in Northeast Ohio

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