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Energizing the Economy Through Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer: What Has Been Tried? What Has Been Tested? What Will Work?
August 8-10, 2005

• Changes in Federal Relationships in Economic Development
• Session 1: Case Studies in Energizing a Local Community
  • Lisa Dawson, Northeast Oregon Economic Development District (44 kb)
• Session 2: Local Entrepreneurship—One Size Does Not Fit All
• Session 3: Clusters and Enterprise Targeting—What Are They and How to Use Them?
  • Tom Johnson, University of Missouri (90 kb)
  • Tom Harris, Universisty of Nevada, Reno (121 kb)
• Session 4: Developing Business in a Competitive Export Market
• Session 5: Base Reallocations and Closings
• Technology Transfer
• Session 6: Investing in Future Entrepreneurship
• Session 7: University Research Parks—Catalysts for Economic Development
• Session 8: Incubators
  • Annette Johnson, Eastern Oregon University (366 kb)
• Session 9: Fifteen Steps to Entrepreneurial Development on Indian Reservations and Rural America
• Workshop Summary