By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems We live in a very complex and dynamic global economy and society. Change seems to be accelerating. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic illustrates how globally interrelated we are now. With the start of each new year new content is generated focused on the future and what...
By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Despite a worldwide pandemic health crisis, recession, all the Zoom conferences, and a presidential election, we close out another productive year. Here's a compilation of original white papers we shared on entrepreneurship and ecosystem building. Read on. NetWork Kansas is the home for e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems,...
By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and David Iaquinta Is Your Community a JEDI Hometown? Growing Entrepreneurial Communities The United States has grown and developed in large part by waves of new residents bringing their histories, values, customs, foods, religions, and so much more. While America has been a land of opportunity for...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2020 Contact: Amara Kniep, Product Manager, E-Community Programs, NetWork...
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By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Broadband and Rural America Restart, Recovery and Resiliency The world COVID-19 pandemic health crisis has greatly disrupted our lives with millions of Americans now infected and deaths approaching 215,000 according to Johns Hopkins University data. While the worst effects of the pandemic have largely impacted more...
For Immediate Release Jack Allston, PCEDC Director [email protected] (Pictured from left to right: Dirk Riniker, President, Ebert Construction and Vice President, Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corporation, Jack Allston, Executive Director, PCEDC and Jessica Venneberg, Executive Assistant, PCEDC.) Washington, DC Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corporation won three awards from the International Economic Development Council...
By NetWork Kansas NetWork Kansas' Erik Pedersen and Amara Kniep are the featured guests of the EntreEd Talk podcast episode 79, which was released today. Pedersen and Kniep shared information about the organization's support of entrepreneurship and small business growth as well as provided an overview of the E-Community program. "We tend to work...
By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Ord, Nebraska An Entrepreneurial Community In the 1980s Ord and its region were in crisis facing serious challenges and the potential it could go the way of so many other rural communities into continued decline losing vitality along the way. By the 1990s Ord was facing...
By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Pandemic Recession Future Trends Implications for rural community development With each major socioeconomic event (e.g., depressions, pandemics, civil unrest, wars, etc.) there is typically fundamental and transformative change. Author and professor Richard Florida calls this type of change a reset. We believe the COVID-19 health pandemic, shutdowns,...
