Sustainable Local Economic Development training

Overview

INTRODUCTION

The focus of this course is on creating and managing multi-stakeholder processes that take place in the local and regional urban economy. Regions and localities are faced with two major trends in opposite directions: internationalization and decentralization. Internationalization exacerbates the interactions between the global and the local levels but operates selectively.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Conceptualizing local economic development studies
• Why has LED become an issue? - Globalization, cohesion and competitiveness
• Why has LED become an issue? - Decentralization and Local Economic DevelopmenEntrepreneurshiprise and Entrepreneurship Development
• Clusters and value chains
• SME cooperation in cluster development
• Urban livelihood and LED promotion
• Locality development and urban economic policies
• Local organizations for LED promotion
• Managing stakeholder fora for city economic development