membership tiers and services
Explorer (free)
Aimed at: Local and Regional Economic Development professionals, new start employees, elected members
- 1 hour foundation course, and introductory modules of every course
- Local and regional economic development handbook workbooks
- Access to community discussion spaces
All access pass (for practitioners): ยฃ89 annual membership
Aimed at:
- Early Professional 0-5 years experience
- Those with limited/no CPD budget
- Career changers entering ED
- Consultants needing CPD
Services available
- 15 hours of on-demand courses
- Downloadable templates, tools and workbooks
- 50% discount on all ebooks
- 20% discount on all hard copy books
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In the late 1990s I spent the best part of two years inside the engine rooms of economic development. I interviewed chief executives, directors and managers of development agencies in Scotland, London, Belfast and Berlin for my doctorate, and I went looking for the...
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Before the promise of local and regional devolution and integrated funding settlements, when money came in competitive pots with the criteria written in Whitehall, the shape of your programme was somebody else's fault and the honest appraisal was somebody else's job....
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Do you want to be great at economic development?
I mean the question literally, and I think everyone in this field should answer it. Not โdo you want your place to prosperโ โ everyone wants that, the way everyone wants good weather. I mean: does your institution intend to become genuinely excellent at the discipline...
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Not because they weren't smart. Not because they didn't work hard. But because nobody had ever explained to them what economic development actually is. What is the mission? What is the function? What are the dilemmas you'll face when public purpose and private...
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I sat in meetings early in my career where decisions were being made and I didn't know the local backstory. Who had tried what before? Why certain approaches had been abandoned? What are the political sensitivities? What the community actually needed versus what...