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Economic Gardening pilot program fueling Apex Innovations’ growth

Apex Innovations http://www.apexinnovations.com/ is one of 14 Louisiana companies selected to be part of the Louisiana Economic Gardening pilot program, offered by Louisiana Economic Development through the National Strategic Research Team of the National Center for Economic Gardening https://nationalcentereg.org/ .

The initiative is designed to provide Louisiana-based small businesses with information to aid their growth and success. Through accelerated technical assistance and research, an experienced national economic gardening team will provide customized services tailored to the needs of companies like Apex.

Economic Gardening: http://www.littletongov.org/bia/economicgardening/

Written by Leslie Turk

Full story: http://www.theind.com/business/9650-pilot-program-fueling-apex-innovations-growth

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Christmas Musings–change and stability

In the current political environment, I cannot help but notice the tendency to stake out extreme, singular positions. If you are far right, free enterprise is responsible for creating the most wealth in the history of the world and raising millions out of poverty (real, not relative). If you are far left, free enterprise leads to a concentration of wealth in the hands of a few with most people trying to play fair but having the rules and outcomes stacked against them (Occupy Wall Street and other locations with a park).

Everything we have discovered in Economic Gardening leads me to believe that it is not either/or but rather the tension between these two outlooks. Yes, capitalism does a great job of innovating new products and services to solve human wants and needs. Yes, capitalism does a great job of driving down the costs of these items. This same process also drives down wages and throws people out of work and leaves rusting towns in the Midwest. Because capitalism is a biological system which is characterized by power laws, wealth gets super-concentrated. It is also a system operating at the edge of chaos and occasionally the bottom drops out and everything gets thrown into chaos for no apparent reason.

It is all of these things but neither side is willing to admit to the other side’s truthful points.

Chris Gibbons

Full Story: http://groups.google.com/group/econ-dev/browse_thread/thread/794901502340dd51

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