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Development Report Card For The States – promising practices

The Development Report Card for the States (DRC) is intended as a tool for policymakers, practitioners, and advocates to understand how their states’ economies, and the factors that promote healthy economies, are faring relative to other states. As a resource for readers of the DRC who want to improve their state’s performance in a given area, CFED is beginning to chronicle "Promising Practices" for each of the 12 subindexes of the DRC. In time, each issue area will have its own brief, which will in turn then be continually updated.

To do this, CFED is convening a series of roundtable discussions of experts and leading thinkers in each of the fields analyzed in the DRC. Participants were asked to bring to the table promising examples of existing, real-world practices that were being initiated by states or that could be supported at the state level. From this collective brain trust, CFED is distilling the best of these ideas in this series of Promising Practices briefs. These are meant as a starting point for readers of the DRC who want to know where to turn to find the best ideas around the country that could be adapted or replicated in their state.

promising practices in entrepreneurship

The practices highlighted by the roundtable on entrepreneurship fell into five categories:

* Networks and Collaborations
* Financing
* Training and Education
* Services
* Policy

What follows are two detailed examples: one that has a long track record and one that shows great potential for its scale and scope. These networks are designed around research and evidence that entrepreneurs in networks have a greater likelihood of success that those with limited access to other entrepreneurs and resources.

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MATR extends congratulations to:

Montana Advanced Business Consulting Network – Missoula, Montana http://www.mtcdc.org/

The Missoula SBDC coordinates activities of the Montana Advanced Business Consulting Network, a network of service providers that focus on growth entrepreneurs.

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Read on…

http://www.cfed.org/focus.m?parentid=34&siteid=245&id=249

(Many thanks to Chris Gibbons http://www.littletongov.org for passing this along. Russ)

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