ECONOMIC GARDENING

Economic Gardening® is the gold standard for an entrepreneurial approach to economic development. The program focuses on supporting local stage 2 growth companies with strategic information and frameworks to grow jobs locally... Economic Gardening® is the oldest and best tested entrepreneurial economic development program in the country. In 1987, Chris Gibbons and Jim Woods brainstormed a groundbreaking idea: develop an entrepreneurial approach to economic development. At the time, the standard practice was to recruit companies from other communities (economic hunting). The unconventional thesis suggested that economic developers could stay at home and help local entrepreneurs grow their companies (economic gardening)... The National Center for Economic Gardening provides training and certification in Economic Gardening principles and practices twice a year. These sessions have two tracks: program administrator and technical staff.

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