The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary
a resource of the .network library
economic development organization:
... an economic
developer positioned
as a resource
supplier or service
provider; a practitioner (definition
of economic development practitioner below) having contact
data online
or elsewhere, especially, someone listed in
an economic
development directory; a development
representative for a locale working under a job description
that identifies economic development responsibilities; a
member of the group of resource
and
service providers identified as .network mission
contacts and, therefore
qualified to be listed in the Global
Registry of Contacts. Records
are created and maintained in the GRC for free.
economic development practitioner:
... a person directly involved in some aspect of
... the process of creating wealth through the
mobilization of human, financial, capital, physical and natural resources
to generate
marketable
goods and services. The economic developer's role is to influence
the process for the benefit of the community through expanding job
opportunities and the tax base (source of quote: AEDC 1984—American
Economic Development Council). Subsequently the association added
... the entire set of approaches to economic development practice
may be considered a specialized form of marketing. (1994—Economic
Development Tomorrow). See the Enterprise
and Economic Development Library/Marketing for resources and more
information.
economic development representative
... a contact for a place seeking economic development; a .network mission contact either listed or qualified to be listed in the Global Registry of Contacts among area and local development representatives. See the definition of economic developer contact above. CLICK HERE to search for a location and its economic development contact in the GRC.
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definition of economic
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