Home Tourism SET Our Projects Partners Links/Docs Contact

Links to helpful resource pages:

Using all the resources you can find is vital to economic success. Are you starting your own business, or working with an existing on to grow its productivity? Are you a community member looking for additional resources to bring back to meetings? Below are several links that provide helpful insight, guides and contact numbers that we feel will help grow economic development in your region.

REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS

  • A Guide to Community-Based Planning
  • Attraction Strategies Recruiting the Right Things
  • Bridging the Urban Rural Divide
  • Clusters and Competitiveness
  • Eight Principles for Rural Governance
  • Energizing Youth Entrepreneurs
  • Entrepreneurship in North Central Region
  • Getting Your Community Ready for Economic Development
  • Growing Entrepreneurs From The Ground Up
  • Harvesting Agricultural Rewards by ACEnet
  • Innovative Approaches to Entrepreneurial Development
  • New Rural Paradigm
  • Past Silos and Smokestacks
  • Revitalizing Rural Economies
  • Role of Small and Large Business in Economic Development
  • Unlocking Rural Competitiveness
  • Vision to Action, Take Charge Too!
  • Why Rural Communities Prosper
  • Youth Attraction as Economic Development Strategy
  • Youth Entrepreneurship Kellogg Foundation

LINKS

  • MU Extension's Missouri Business Development Program
  • Missouri Business Portal
  • BRIDG (Business Research and Information Development Group - Entrepreneurial reports
  • Kauffman Foundation - Research based Entrepreneur Assistance
  • Entrepreneurship in Missouri (MERIC - Missouri Economic Research and Information Center)
  • MU Extension Youth Enterprisers Program / 4-H Center for Youth Development
  • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - international research data on entrepreneurial activity
  • Heartland Center for Rural Leadership and Entrepreneural Development
  • Hometown Competitiveness - comprehensive approach to long-term rural community sustainability
  • The Center for Rural Affairs
  • Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
  • Missouri Rural Development Partners
  • Missouri Community Betterment (MCB)
  • Missouri Department of Economic Development - Business and Community Service
  • University of Missouri Extension OSEDA (Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis
  • Missouri Community Policy Analysis Center (CPAC)
  • Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI)
  • University of Missouri Community Development Program Website
  • National Bureau of Economic Research
  • DED - MERIC Retail Trade Analysis Reports
  • Southern Rural Development Center
  • Preservation Nation

University of Missouri Extension Homepage
Webmaster: Brian Maurer
573/882-5525