But don’t take my word for it… Dr. Weldon Sleight, the dean of the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis, worries about the future of small towns in rural America. “We’re in trouble,” Dr. Sleight told members of Southwest Nebraska Resource Conservation and Development gathered in McCook Thursday evening for their annual banquet. ……
Kansas has been making a huge deal of supporting entrepreneuriship as a major part of economic development. If you are looking for rural economic development ideas, look into Kansas’ new projects. StartUp Kansas, the financial arm of Network Kansas, has made its first financial award. Dan Thalmann, who has been at the Washington County News…
So Professor Mohammed Yunus is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace. Didn’t mean much to me, until entrepreneurs I admire spoke up. Tom Peters is ecstatic, Rex Hammock is all for it and I’m beginning to see why this is important to me and you: entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is one of the few great…
February 24 – March 3, 2007 What is it?A national effort to inspire and encourage young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice and to celebrate America’s unique culture of inventiveness. When is it?With the theme,”What’s Your Big Idea? Take it On!” EntrepreneurshipWeek USA will be conducted Feb. 24 – March 3, 2007. What’s…
JA Chowdhary has some entrepreneurial advice to share. He is president of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE), Hyderabad Chapter, in India. As you read these, think about how much is similar to your own thinking, and how much is different. I would advice the budding entrepreneurs to be innovative. They shouldn’t go after an idea just…
Energizing Young Entrepreneurs EYE*DEAS Talent Search From the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship. The Center’s research in recent years has found that entrepreneurship is gaining serious interest as a way of engaging young people. Many communities and organizations are coming up with their own entrepreneurial solutions, and we are seeking to learn more about them. Between…
Direct from the EDPro Weblog, here’s the scoop on rural outsourcing: Rural areas are becoming more competitive with the expansion of communications networks. Here’s a good story about how some high tech jobs are being “outsourced” to rural regions. Read more. Increasingly, rural counties are seeing that communciations networks are critical to their ability to…
I’ve read several exciting things on rural economic development lately, and I wanted to share some examples and some ideas. Three Tips to a Successful InitiativeHillsboro, Kansas, is launching a business incubator with the city and university participating. The mayor pointed out three things she liked in the proposal. Developers have done a thorough job…
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