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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Economic development policy"”.
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An economic development policy for Cambridge: employment and stability.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1972. B.S.
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Opportunities for technological and economic development policy in Brazil
… rapid growth phases which were each followed by economic and social chaos. Three administrations of different political persuasions implemented policies that brought surges of foreign direct investment, foreign technology, and mechanization to Brazil. The nation's economy grew at an astounding …
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Community economic development : policy framework for Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation (NCDC)
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1983.
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Developing an economic development policy : the evolution and impact of a new DOE mission
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Willingness to pay for industrial recruitment: A look at local decision-maker activity versus citizen preference
Academic research in the area of economic development policy is overwhelmingly critical of industrial recruitment, recommending instead that resources be directed towards strategies such as business retention and expansion, fostering local entrepreneurship, and amenity development. This research …
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The Tholian Web: The Political/Institutional Context of Regional Cluster-Based Economic Development
… to the trend of regional cluster-based economic development policy in order to develop a conceptual framework of the political/institutional context of this "new" approach. In order to develop a framework that can be utilized by practitioners, field studies were conducted in Austin, …
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Cluster planning and cluster strategy in regional economic development organizations
Paper 1: The changing landscape of regional economic development practice: Findings from a survey of regional economic development organizations in US metropolitan areas Regional-scale economic development practice has evolved considerably in the past few decades. The change has been influenced by …
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Community economic development? An examination of regional and sub-regional support networks for social enterprise
The development of social enterprise as a potential tool to assist local and community economic development, has led to a range of debates specifically about the social and entrepreneurial values they exhibit. These debates have led to more theoretical questions about how social enterprise can …
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Worker owned cooperatives and the ecosystems that support them
… governed assets, communities can build wealth. Economic development policy and practice should emphasize wealth creation. Employee ownership, through worker cooperatives is one way to build wealth. But worker cooperatives are rare in the United States; this is because there is not a supportive …
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Overcoming inequality in regional innovation ecosystems : the Basque country and the advance of economic democracy
… on designing and implementing place-based economic development strategies for clustering innovation and entrepreneurship. This rising trend can be seen in the proliferation of Innovation Districts and Regional Innovation Ecosystems across many metropolitan regions in the US, Europe, and …
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South Africa's Stolen Gold: a legal analysis of the impact of illegal mining on South Africas national security
… further jeopardise the future of South Africa's economic development perspective, which is outlined in the National Development Plan (NDP) and highlights the need to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality. Therefore, this posits illegal mining activities as national security threats as they …
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Defining and Measuring Entrepreneuship for Regional Research: A New Approach
… that will aid entrepreneurship research and economic development policy. My new indicators represent an improvement over current measures of entrepreneurship. The chief contribution of these new indicators is that they incorporate innovation, which others ignore. These indicators represent a …
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Complete "and" cooperate through industry cluster public policy : a Connecticut case
Even though the cluster-led economic development has received wide attention among policy makers since the 1900s, the ways it is implemented has been questioned by several researchers. One of the criticisms is that policy makers lack the understanding of specific causes of companies to cluster. …
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Deconstructing places : a data-driven ethnography of neighborhood change for one New York city block
… measures are important because planning and economic development policy that relies on these measures impacts future place-making and community development. To understand neighborhood change at a granular scale that can be useful to decision makers, I conduct a data-driven ethnography in …
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Developing common wealth : workspaces for innovation and entrepreneurship in Massachusetts
… shared, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's economic development policy, Opportunities for All, has focused on reducing disparities across the state. Meanwhile, the state's Gateway Cities present persistent challenges with lower than average incomes and weak market conditions for real estate …
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An assessment of the industry cluster approach as a tool for local economic development:the case of the new media industry in Birmingham
… cluster policies are a current trend in local economic development programmes and represent a major shift from traditional approaches. This trend has been coupled by an increasing interest in new media industry as a significant focus for regional development strategies. In England clusters and …
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South Africa's foreign policy and the domestic developmental agenda
… seeks to explore to what extent the domestic developmental agenda (DDA) informs the formulation of South African foreign policy with regards to national development priorities. The DDA does not refer to a formally agreed consensus-based national agenda; instead, it is used in this study to …
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Civil Society and the Collaborative County
Socioeconomic forces (e.g. mobile capital, domestic manufacturing decline, and austerity measures) place stress upon U.S. local governments’ efforts to provide public services. County governments operate in a context where they must meet federal and state devolutionary responsibilities while …
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Determinants of Electricity Demand in Libya: An Empirical Study for the Period 1980-2010
… most important elements for achieving social and economic development throughout the world. Electricity is one of the most essential sources of energy. The importance stems from the role of electric power in fulfilling the main consumption needs for basic energy as one of the inputs to the …
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