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the local economic development podcast, hosted by Shawn Cunningham and Jörg Meyer-Stamer
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Concepts

In this series we look at some of the conceptual issues in LED. This series is a bit more theoretical than the first series, but we try our best not to be too academic.

Competition and competitiveness

Change management

Systemic competitiveness

Market failure

One stop shops

Social Capital and LED

Business Retention and Expansion

Local enabling environment

What is a cluster?

Tools

In this series we look at some of the practical tools that can be used in LED.

The Boston Matrix

The Leaking Bucket

Polarity management

The Vegetable Garden

Managing expectations

PACA

The Compass of Local Competitiveness

Mad - Glad - Sad

Using the Five Forces Concept as a Workshop Format

Designing an LED workshop

Organising an LED workshop -- whom and how to invite

Case Studies

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Carnival in Trinidad

IBA See, Lusatia, eastern Germany

LED in Bosnia and Herzegovina

UNIDO's experience with cluster promotion

Using radio in local development

Business Development Committees in Nigeria

The Genesis method in Amatole, South Africa

Training councillors in LED

Tourism development in a World Cultural Heritage town

Starting LED in a marble sculpture cluster in Vietnam

SEBRAE, SMEs, supplier development and value chains in Brazil

Experiences with LED in South Eastern Europe

Regional Economic Development in Central Java, Indonesia

LED in a poor rural location in South Africa

The Innovation Series

In this series, we address conceptual and practical issues around innovation.

Introduction

The Value Chain Series

In this series we look at value chains -- research on them, experiences with promoting them, and how they relate to local economic development.

Social standards

Cut out the middleman? And then what?

Standards and certification in global value chains

CIAT's experiences in Central America

Learning in Global Value Chains

Value Chains: Introduction

The First Series

This is the series that we published between March and July 2007. It covers a wide range of important topics in LED.

Episode #12: Reflecting on the first dozen episodes

Episode #11: LED at the International Labour Organization

Episode #10: The three meanings of facilitation in LED

Episode #9: LED as a process

Episode #8: Pro-poor Tourism and Local Economic Development

Episode #7: Tourism and LED in Da Nang, Vietnam

Episode #6: LED in South Africa

Episode #5: Involving the Private Sector in LED

Episode #4: LED in industrialised and developing countries

Episode #3: LED in four types of regions

Episode #2: LED and Strategy

Episode #1: What is LED?

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