National Center for
Economic Gardening
The nation’s original entrepreneurship-led economic development framework

Built to help second-stage companies grow, create high-quality jobs, and expand your community’s local economy

Economic Gardening® is the gold standard for an entrepreneurship-led approach to economic development. The program focuses on supporting local stage 2 growth companies with strategic information and frameworks to grow jobs locally.

Economic Gardening® adds entrepreneurship-led economic development to recruiting outside firms, growing the entrepreneurs you already have. Our research-driven approach equips second-stage companies with sophisticated market intelligence, digital strategy, and leadership insights they cannot easily access on their own.

This idea spread across the nation, and today entrepreneurship-led efforts have become a standard part of many economic development worldwide and has received a number of national awards.

Advantages of the Entrepreneurship-led Economic Gardening Approach

  • Stronger tax base, More quality jobs

    Measurable outcomes tied to entrepreneurship-led economic development using Economic Gardening

  • Easy to Start

    A trained national teams, tested tools, ready to deploy

  • Three Decades of Proven Results

    The original and most-tested approach in the field

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