Description:
Fifth in the 2007-08 Building Communities Webinar Series: Community & Economic Development. Faciliators: GIS Specialist Matt Kures and Center Fellow Terry Ludeman, University of Wisconsin-Extension. UW-Extension GIS Specialist Matt Kures and Center Fellow Terry Ludeman (invited) take on the economic development debate—should we focus on clusters or work collaboratively in regions? Terry will detail how to identify regional economic similarities as a first step to creating regional approaches. Matt will uncover the secrets of identifying industrial/business clusters to target economic development efforts. The magic happens when they show how combining clusters with regions leads to powerful information from which winning regional economic and workforce development strategies can be formed.