Urban/Rural InnovationPolicy factors and EDD success stories

http://www.commerce.gov/americacompetes

Obama adds cabinet seat for SBA administrator, proposes merging commerce agencies

The Washington Post, 01/13/12

Wordle™ of remarks prepared for delivery by John Fernandez, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, at the 18th Annual Conference of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds in Arlington, Texas, on October 19, 2011.

Source: http://www.eda.gov/NewsEvents/Speeches/Speech10192011_SeedAndVentureFunds_TX

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/11/jobs_accelerator.html

“…the biggest question is what we can do in the public and private sectors to spur job

creation.

EDA’s Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge is one federal program providing its own compelling answer. This

new program is a great example of doing what works—leveraging existing resources to

do more with less.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/21/we-can-t-wait-obama-administration-announces-steps-boost-rural-economy-p

http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/RuralJobsAccelerator.html

What are EDDs doing to support innovation-based economic development?

http://www.nado.org/mobilize-maine-asset-based-regional-economic-development/

http://www.nado.org/growing-rural-innovation-based-economies-kansas-opportunity-innovation-network/

http://www.pennyrilefuture.com

Nine counties in Kentucky & Montgomery County, TN

“The 12 counties individually represent average rural communities but together, as a region, the population notably becomes

340,350…making us the 4th largest “county” in the state.”

http://www.reditn.com

http://www.sacog.org/rucs/