Saturday, November 15, 2003
San Jose is focusing its economic strategy on start-ups.
According to EDPro Paul Krutko, the city's economic development director:
"We are interested in growing companies from their birth to where they are world-class companies. We want to capture them in an early phase -- the growth phase of 10 to 100 employees. We want that to happen here."
In 1896, the first long-distance transmission of hydroelectricity from the Niagara Falls Power Company flowed to Buffalo, N.Y., 26 miles away.
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The purpose of this weblog is to help economic development professionals -- EDPros -- keep up with the changes sweeping our profession. Strap on your goggles. It's a whole new game. There are no experts any more. The only place to learn about economic development is from other EDPros who are doing it.
One other point: the prevaling approach (paradigm, if you like) in economic development is shifting from competition to collaboration. There are a lot of reaasons underlying this shift, but here's the important insight: You, your community, and your region will do better by collaborating and sharing information.
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San Jose focuses on start-ups
