Completed
Regional focus
North America
Topics
In April 2018, a committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy convened a workshop to explore the challenges and opportunities for expanding innovation-led job growth and economic dynamism to smaller “micropolitan” communities across the State of Indiana. The workshop’s panels and discussions considered policies to more effectively network local resources across a varied geography and connect them to broader ecosystems and national and global innovation networks. A brief summary of the workshop was prepared, and an archived webcast of the event is available at https://bit.ly/2QyhEJp and https://bit.ly/2RlujoA,
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Workshop_in_brief
·2018
Micropolitan areas of the United States, cities with populations between 10,000 and 50,000 people, have received little attention from either the research or policy communities regarding their roles in the U.S. economy. Only recently has attention turned toward small-town America in order to try to...
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Description
To inform the work of the Innovation Policy Forum, an ad hoc planning committee under the oversight of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) will organize a workshop to explore the challenges and potential best practices in achieving economic development in micropolitan and rural areas in the United States, focusing on the state of Indiana as a case study.
Topics and issues that might be explored include:
- Understanding place-based economic performance and the challenge of developing innovation networks in micropolitan areas and connecting them to the national and global innovation networks;
- The role of industry and institutions, including university/post-secondary educational institutions and philanthropies, in spurring workforce development and sustainable regional growth; and
- The role of federal and state economic development program and policy efforts. How do state and federal efforts integrate economic development resources from federal, state, local, and philanthropic sources to achieve more impactful and sustainable economic development outcomes?
A proceedings in brief of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
Collaborators
Sponsors
Economic Development Administration
IBM
Indiana University Board of Trustees
Staff
Gail Cohen
Lead
David Dierksheide
Frederic Lestina