Subject(s): Industrial promotion -- United States -- Community development -- Economic development -- Employment development -- Human Resource Development -- New argument for taking local economic development initiatives : Job migration, community successes, divided labour force, local economic development -- Toward a national and state policy agenda : National economic polices, state economic development approaches challenges and opportunities inherent in third-wave policy making -- Concepts and theories of local economic development : Growth and development, reformulation of local economic development components -- Local economic development planning process : Preliminary tasks of local economic development planning, six phases of planning, planning resources in community, selecting a local economic development role, local economic development planning -- Analytical techniques for planning local development -- Selecting local economic development strategy : Goals of local economic development, project finance -- Locality development : landbanking and community land trusts, physical infrastructure development on industrial and commercial land, speculative buildings, zoning regulations, business improvement districts, tourism planning, townscaping, shopsteading, housing and neighbourhood improvement, community services -- Business development : Creating a good business climate, one stop business assistance centres, start-up venture financing companies and development banks, small business development centres, group marketing systems, micro enterprise, women's enterprises, promotion and tourism programs, enterprise zones, new entrepreneur development activities -- Human resource development : Under-trained work force, public role in workforce development, economic development objectives, human resource development strategy -- Community-based economic and employment development : Community development corporations, community cooperatives, local enterprise agencies, employee/worker ownership , targeting and marketing community assets -- Preparing a detailed project plan -- Institutional approaches for local economic development : Organizational requirements for local development, economic development specialist, institutional approaches to local economic development, public-private partnership -- High-technology economic development strategy : soft infrastructure -- Local economic development profession and professionals