Saturday, January 24, 2004
Building effective entrepreneurial networks represents one of the biggest challenges facing every region. Fragmentation --a lot of small, underscale efforts -- can waste resources.
Leaders in Northeast Ohio are focusing their efforts on JumpStart, a new initiative to combine four existing. It represents the type of collaboration that we need to build focus and scale.
The mission of the partnership is clear: To deliver vital, focused resources to entrepreneurs and the community, accelerating the growth of early-stage businesses and ideas into venture ready companies, and to ultimately transform Northeast Ohio into a nationally significant center of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Learn more. Download a report on building entrepreneurship networks in Northeast Ohio from Nortech, The Northeast Ohio Technology Coalition. Go.
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Some Background on EDPro Weblog
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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Speaking and workshops on Open Source Economic Development
As the idea of Open Source Economic Development starts spreading, more people are asking about it. Visit the I-Open web site to learn more. My colleagues and I are happy to explain the basic concepts in a talk or a workshop. E-mail Susan Alshuler if you'd like to learn more about workshops and speaking.
Background on Ed Morrison
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Building entrepreneurship networks in Northeast Ohio
