Bill King from Expansion Management: What is Economic Development?

Bill King wrote in this EM Blog: "Just what exactly is economic development? Is its purpose to implement industrial policy, or is it simply a way to streamline some of the government bureaucracy? Is it corporate welfare, or a way to attract much needed jobs and tax base to communities? For that matter, is its main purpose to attract new companies to a locale, or to help retain the businesses that are already there?" He goes on to say it is all of these things.

I raise again the question: "Where is economic development on the professional development curve?" Click here to download my white paper on the subject.