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The website has two primary resource areas. Both are designed for you to select and move through a series of pages after entering Economic Development.net. CLICK HERE if you would rather use a search tool or continue reading to learn more about resource areas.

One resource area is a series of pages about economic development. Its opens to the .network glossary addendum which which lists terms beginning with the word economic.

The second resource area accommodates searches for locations. In other words, it is a site selection resource. Referred to as Area Development, it opens to a complete list of countries around the world based on the assumption that all of them seek economic development. Make use of Area Development by entering and selecting the linked name of a country (what to do if there is no link). Ideally, you would move through pages in a series that cover regions, territories, provinces, states and the like until you reach places at the local level. All along the way, we try to provide information and links that give you access to contacts in position as location data suppliers for places of interest. In an effort to make Area Development a worthwhile site selection resource we do two things:

One thing we do to make Area Development useful is offer to list the name of a location and publish information about it as a free service to anyone who makes a request. The free service includes creating a link to an online listing of the best available source of economic development data. Requests for listing a place of interest and information about how to contact its location data supplier can be made anonymously. However, you should have a record in the Global Registry of Contacts and consider applying to participate in The Network if you are a location data supplier or another type of resource supplier or service provider engaged in the enterprise and economic development process.

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One quick way to find the addendum in which economic development and other terms beginning with the word economic are defined is to select the E-File from the alphabetical list of the glossary directory. Look for the definition of the abbreviation, ecodev, near the top of the page. The definition shows the term, economic development, italicized and linked to the addendum. There are other links to the addendum throughout the E-File, one immediately below ecodev that shows the linked URL address string. Also, you can google for "what does ecodev stand for" and most likely gain access to the glossary E-File (try copying and pasting the italicized phrase with quotation marks in any major search engine's search box).

CLICK HERE to skip the above exercise and go directly to the glossary's E-File.

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See Searching for Locations in the series of pages that introduce The Network. Any place that can be found on a map is considered a location. The .network glossary definition of location is tied directly to its mission. For example, a country is a location and a region within a country is a location. Of course, cities, towns and other communities qualify as locations as long as they are on the map. Use any search tool to look for a place of interest to you. If you don't find it listed in The Network with enough information to put you through to a location data supplier, CLICK HERE, and ask us to correct the situation. We will act on your request as a free service. Read about our search promise for more about the service.

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Site selection is a process of enterprise development. Ask any representative of a location seeking economic development and you should quickly learn its importance. The Network is dedicated to providing resources for enterprise and economic development. Its value as a resource for selection is quickly realized when you consider that it zeros in on one of the first steps to be taken in entering the process, that of gathering information about places of interest.

CLICK HERE for a series of pages about searching that indicate the value of The Network.

Guide for using the original .network internal search tool:

maintain pull-downs as-a-phrase and case-sensitive to search for a location.

maintain pull-downs as-a-phrase and case-sensitive to search for a contact

change pull-downs to search for a resource, except when querying for a title **

don't enter parentheses, quotation marks or brackets in the search box

don't enter symbols or obscure text characters in the search box

use a page-search tool after selecting a search results item

contact us if you have a question or comment. Read about our search promise.

** keep settings at as-a-phrase and case-sensitive when searching for words that begin with capital letters; i.e. the name of a resource rather than it description.

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