LEDCast

LEDCast

By Shawn CunninghamSociety & CultureBusinessNon-Profit
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LEDCast episodes

  • Tourism and LED in Da Nang, Vietnam
    Christian Schoen (mesopartner) and Jonathan Mitchell (Overseas Development Institute) talk about their efforts to promote tourism through local economic development activities in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang.
    25 min
  • Involving the business sector in LED
    Why is it often difficult to involve the business sector in LED? What can you do to raise their interest? At one point, we refer to Malcolm Gladwell's concept of "connectors". More information on this is available at http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/tp_excerpt2.html.
    31 min
  • LED in industrialised and developing countries
    In industrialized countries, LED has been practized for decades, whereas in developed countries it is a fairly recent phenomenon. Current practice in industrialized countries is the result of extensive learning-by-doing and trial-and-error processes. Practitioners in developing countries who want to learn for those experiences need to understand the evolutionary pattern of LED, and they need to ask the right questions to understand how current practice emerged.
    15 min
  • LED and Strategy

    In this program, we discuss the difference between strategy and strategic planning and the meaning of strategy for LED.

    In the Podcast, we mention Henry Mintzberg's "5 Ps of Strategy". There is more information available at http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/dstools/paradigm/5pstrat.html We also mention David La Piana, the author of "Play to Win. The Nonprofit Guide to Competitive Strategy". You can find a Podcast where he presents some of his main ideas at http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/SI.CLB-DavidLaPiana-2006.08.19.mp3

    23 min
  • Why LED?

    Why has Local Economic Development received so much attention in recent years, both by local actors and by national governments?

    15 min

About LEDCast

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This podcast is about Local Economic Development (LED). The authors will discuss interesting topics in the field of LED. Industry experts will be interviewed and practical tools will be discussed.