Excerpt from:  Value Networks Blog: Verna Allee
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February 01, 2009

Network-Centric Development

Strategies for Leveraging Social and Economic Linkages for Growth

Network-Centric Development

The Fall 2008 issue of Developing Alternatives is devoted to network strategies and tools for economic development. Big thank you to Grady Batchelor for bringing this to our attention. See PDF link below. 

Contents:

  • A Network Optic on Development, by Ulrich F.W. Ernst

  • A Network View of Economic Development, by Cesar A. Hidalgo and Ricardo Hausmann

  • Value Networks: Mobilizing Knowledge for Progress, by Bryanna Millis

  • Linking Up: A Practitioner’s Perspective on the Economic Linkages that Shape Development,by Gary Kilmer

  • Space, the Final Frontier? How Geosocial Networking Can Help Target Development Interventions, by Robert Bouvier, Ioana Bouvier, Erin Goodnough, and Andrew Ross

  • Social Networks and Democratic Transitions, by Joseph Siegle

  • Network Concepts in Fighting the Spread of Infectious Disease, by Ulrich F.W. Ernst

  • Promoting Competition in a Network Industry: The Financial Sector, by Stijn Claessens
Topic Tags:  clusters, economic growth, network industry, regional development