New Guide for Economic Development Professionals Focuses on Innovations

The Economic Development Administration has produced Strategic Planning in the Technology-Driven World: A Guidebook for Innovation-Led Development. The guide consists of case studies, narratives, exercises, and tools, with the objective of helping “economic development practitioners adopt a realistic, principles-based approach to strategic planning, one that is applicable to areas with widely different technology assets.”

The report is available at http://www.osec.doc.gov/eda/pdf/1G3_21_stratplan-tech.pdf.