Local Industrial Development Research Articles

LOCAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT GROUPS: PERSPECTIVES AND PROFILES

Local industrial development groups (LIDGs) are often among the most visible organizations involved in community economic development. LIDGs annually spend billions of dollars directly or indirectly in various promotional and community improvement efforts. Yet relatively little is known about their organizational forms, their operating strategies, or their real impact on the economic development of communities. The study reported here was undertaken by researchers from three academic backgrounds in order to capture a rich, comprehensive view of this organizational type. In this paper, we discuss the research perspectives which informed our overall approach to the study, and subsequently, we present and discuss a preliminary profile of LIDGs, based on our recent national survey.

Regional Public-Private Partnerships: Forging the Future

The Economic Development Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania (EDCNP) was formed in 1964 by business leaders who saw the need for regional approaches to economic development to supplement the work of existing organizations such as chambers of commerce and local industrial development groups. The EDCNP is one of the largest, most active, and most successful organizations today. Its activities include administering revolving loan funds, operating industrial programs, providing procurement opportunities, participating in the Ben Franklin Partnership, energy preservation, and stimulation purchase of locally produced goods. The author suggests that one reason for the success of EDCNP is an organizational structure that provides the opportunity for broad regional participation in setting economic development goals and strategies for the region, and for developing regional consensus around the issues.

Economic development in Merseyside: A critique of MERCEDO

Much local economic policy in the UK assumes either an inward investment guise or involves some form of work with the local productive sector. This article critically examines both forms of policy as practised in a Merseyside context. It concludes that inward investment and local industrial development work undertaken by MERCEDO was in many ways regressive and broadly reducible to the development of capital. The later orientation of MERCEDO policy towards the unemployed and other labour groups is found to be a more progressive form of intervention.

Export Processing Zones in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China

WITH THE CHINESE STATE COUNCIL'S directive in 1978 authorizing the establishment of special economic zones (SEZs) in Fujian and Guangdong, the government in Beijing embarked upon a path pioneered by the leadership in Taipei some fifteen years earlier. The establishment of export zones, for both regimes, is part of a set of policy initiatives designed to give foreign capital a pivotal role in economic development. By offering special privileges to foreign corporations, the zones are intended to attract large-scale foreign investment. The government expects the influx of foreign capital to act as the mainspring of local industrial development. As the economy becomes geared to the exportoriented development encouraged by the zones, the social and political systems are altered. While the benefits brought by the zones can be considerable, they do not always live up to expectations and can create new sets of problems for the government. This article will analyze the impact of the export processing zones (EPZs) on the economic, social, and political development of Taiwan and from this analysis offer some tentative conclusions about the impact of the SEZs in the People's Republic of China.

Telematics and development

Abstract Developed countries are rapidly evolving into information economies, and given the increasing internationalization of trade and interdependence, developing countries will also have to become information economies if they are to achieve higher economic growth rates. The essence of the information economy is that information is now the main capital input into manufacturing industry and as such is the key input to economic development. The activities of enquiring, communicating, evaluating, and deciding have become the activities absorbing the major proportion of national resources, with the need to know of the business decision‐maker as the main driving force. In developed information economies, industrial firms have become learning systems and a new division of labor in the economic productive system has evolved. The government‐controlled primary information sector is the source of much of the information input and the provider of the means of information transfer. Developing countries must develop their own primary information sectors as an integrated part of the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. The problems of developing countries are highlighted in the isolation on the one hand of their information generating sectors from the productive sector and on the other of the native small firm sector from all sectors of information. Telematics, as the integration of computing, communication, and information services offers the means to integrate national resources with international and supply the required inputs to local agricultural and industrial development.

Location Effects of State and Local Industrial Development Subsidies: Comment

Growth and ChangeVolume 8, Issue 4 p. 44-46 Location Effects of State and Local Industrial Development Subsidies: Comment JAMES R. RINEHART, JAMES R. RINEHART Mr. Rinehart is a professor of economics at Francis Marion College; Mr. Laird is a professor in and chairman of the Department of Economics at Florida State University.Search for more papers by this authorWILLIAM E. LAIRD, WILLIAM E. LAIRD Mr. Rinehart is a professor of economics at Francis Marion College; Mr. Laird is a professor in and chairman of the Department of Economics at Florida State University.Search for more papers by this author JAMES R. RINEHART, JAMES R. RINEHART Mr. Rinehart is a professor of economics at Francis Marion College; Mr. Laird is a professor in and chairman of the Department of Economics at Florida State University.Search for more papers by this authorWILLIAM E. LAIRD, WILLIAM E. LAIRD Mr. Rinehart is a professor of economics at Francis Marion College; Mr. Laird is a professor in and chairman of the Department of Economics at Florida State University.Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1977 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2257.1977.tb00350.xCitations: 2Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume8, Issue4October 1977Pages 44-46 RelatedInformation

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