Incentives Watch Saturday, October 01, 2005 here are the interesting articles on incentives from last week. Of course, the big news is that the Supreme Court will review the Federal appellate court's decision in the Ohio incentives case. Learn more. The public records case over the Dell incentives in North Carolina has reached a settlement. Read more. Meanwhile the Dell plant is scheduled to open. Read more. (Meanwhile, in an ominous sign, Dell's customer satisfaction ratings are dropping. Read more.) Bartlett, TN is using a range of incentives to help target development investment downtown. These include offering real estate brokers a 1-percent bonus when they sign businesses for at least three years. Read more. The Western Illinois Economic Development Partnership has an intereesting appraoch to promoting investment incentives: a regional Financial Incentives Resource Fair. Read more. The idea of giving Gulf Coast casinos incentives is making some people gag. Read more. Here is an example of what I suspect will be a growing trend -- increasing incentives to people, instead of comapnies. The governor of Rhode Island wants to improve science and math education, and he is prepared to provided financial incentives to do it.Read more. Mississipi's legislature is considering a bill to scale back incentives to a steel mill from $75 million to $60 million. Read more. Boeing's tax incentives will kick in this week. Read more. posted by Ed Morrison |		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. links 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. So, spread the word...Share the knowledge. Tell a friend about EDPro Weblog. If you are using a news reader, here is the link to syndicate this site: Here's the link if you are a bloglines subscriber: 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 Download some background information on me here.

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