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.
About the Program
Advantages of the Entrepreneurship-led Economic Gardening Approach
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Stronger tax base, More quality jobs
Measurable outcomes tied to entrepreneurship-led economic development using Economic Gardening
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Easy to Start
A trained national teams, tested tools, ready to deploy
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Three Decades of Proven Results
The original and most-tested approach in the field
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