Community Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development
The New Localism
The VMT Review — Small Business library
This book examines how cities and networks of businesses, governments, universities, philanthropies, and community organizations can work together to solve economic challenges. It is particularly relevant to VMT’s relationships with chambers, Urban Leagues, universities, accelerators, and entrepreneurship organizations.
What the reader will learn
Mentors learn to see founders as participants in an ecosystem involving capital providers, anchor institutions, procurement systems, workforce programs, real estate, universities, and civic organizations. Business growth frequently depends upon understanding and navigating that local institutional network.