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Regional Approaches to Sustainable Development
This report highlights the opportunities available to RDOs to undertake sustainable development initiatives using a systems-based approach and features case studies from California, Michigan, North Carolina, and Utah.
Growing Rural Innovation-Based Economies: Kansas Opportunity Innovation Network
This report is presented in two parts, a case study overview and a detailed description of steps performed & visualizations created to better understand regional economic development.
Mobilize Maine: Asset-Based Regional Economic Development
The NADO Research Foundation has released a new report, Mobilize Maine: Asset-Based Regional Economic Development. Led by the state’s Economic Development Districts, Mobilize Maine is a proactive approach to revitalizing the economy by drawing on regional assets. This report highlights the efforts of the…
Mobilize Maine: Asset-Based Regional Economic Development
…The NADO Research Foundation has released a new report, Mobilize Maine: Asset-Based Regional Economic Development. Led by the state’s Economic Development Districts, Mobilize Maine is a proactive approach to revitalizing the economy by drawing on regional assets. This report highlights the efforts
Rural Cluster Development in Kansas
NADO staff joined leaders from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Economic Development Administration (EDA) in a peer exchange with Kansas State Universities’ Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) (http://www NULL.amisuccess NULL.com/) and the Kansas Association of Regional Development Organizations…
2011 NADO Regional Sustainable Forum
On July 25, 2011, the NADO Research Foundation is sponsoring a peer exchange, 2011 Regional Sustainable Development Forum: Building Resilient Regions, at the office of the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) in Kansas City, Missouri.
Accessing the Regional Innovation Acceleration Network
On June 28, the NADO Research Foundation held the webinar “Accessing the Regional Innovation Acceleration Network” through the Know Your Region program, funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA). The Regional Innovation Acceleration Network (RIAN) is an EDA-funded project…
Webinar: Accessing the Regional Innovation Acceleration Network (RIAN)
Tuesday June 28, 2011
Description:
June 28, 2011; 2:00 – 3:00 pm (EST)
Entrepreneurship. Technology. Innovation. Commercialization. These concepts are fundamental drivers behind the Regional Innovation Acceleration Network (RIAN). Funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) and supported by…
Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS)
Successful economic development demands balance. From attracting private investment to training a workforce for a knowledge-based, global economy, identifying the needs of your region is paramount to implementing a cogent economic development strategy.
Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS) offer a…
NADO CEDS Innovation Forum
…Thought leaders in regional innovation descended upon Washington, D.C. in January 2011 to share ideas with federal partners and discuss a pathway forward for the nation’s regional development organizations.
Video of the event captured five of the sessions and are now available



