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 Entrepreneurial and Small Business Development Strategies Course Starts Next Month!
Conducted in partnership with the Northeast Economic Developers Association and Camoin Associates, the International Economic Development Council is presenting the Entrepreneurial and Small Business Development Strategies Course in Albany, NY on February 13-14, 2012.
This multi-faceted course explores the core aspects of entrepreneurial and small business development including value-add partnerships, technical assistance programs, financing, business incubation and more. Entrepreneurs and small businesses stimulate job creation, develop crucial innovations in both products and services and promote the diversification of the economic base. In this course, you will learn the financial and managerial tools economic developers use to create a climate that encourages entrepreneurial and small business development. Also, practitioners will examine the barriers they face and how communities can leverage their economic development resources to build highly integrated networks to help businesses thrive in the global economy.
To read more about this course and to register today, click here.
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Unleashing Fundamental Change: Networking Transformational Thinking and Action Through Economic Development
by Jim Damicis, Senior Vice President and other collaborators
The basic premise of this article is that the global economy has changed in fundamental ways and the current practice of economic development is no longer working and needs to be changed. If you don't agree with that premise, there is no need to read further.
OK - so you are still here. Let's explore that premise more.
In a time of such fundamental change, the very idea of what kind of change is occurring needs to be considered. We are in a transition from an Industrial Society to a new type of society that some have titled an Organic Society, in which fundamental principles of thinking and organization are transforming. Everywhere one looks, whether in education, governance, the military, leadership, or economic development, one sees the term transformation, or it derivatives...both as a noun and adjective.
To read more about this transition and transformation, please click here.
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Camoin Associates Names Michael N'dolo as Partner
We are pleased to announce that one of our employees, Michael N'dolo, has recently been made Partner of the company. Michael has been with Camoin Associates since 2004 and is currently serving as Vice President. He is a recognized expert in economic and fiscal impact analysis and has been invited to speak on the subject at various events, including conferences of the New York State Economic Development Council, the Northeastern Economic Developer's Association and many county-level planning events. In September of 2011, Michael was awarded the Certified Economic Developer designation by the International Economic Development Council.
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Thinking Outside of the (Big) Box: Community Development by the People
by Rachel Selsky, Senior Economic Development Specialist
On October 29th, 2011, a new store opened in a small town in upstate New York but it was unlike anything the State had seen before; with over 600 investors, The Saranac Community Store is a community owned department store serving residents and visitors. The New York Times published an article about the Community Store on November 12th, 2011, that reports on the opening of the store in Saranac Lake (a town in the Adirondacks with a population of approximately 5,000) and also provides a bit of background on this retail model and examples of residents taking charge of economic development in their own backyard.
To read more about this different idea of community development, please click here.
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