Local Economic Development and the Academy
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Identifier/URL
40816219 (Pure)
Abstract
This brief introduction highlights the various ways the Academy approaches local economic development (LED). It shows that the Academy is not always been favorable to the advancement of LED as its practical demands often transcend the tightly defined disciplines of a typical university structure. Caught between disciplines, LED to often neglected by theorists as the subject matter is difficult to model and depends heavily on the social fabric of the regional economy. The paper concludes with a brief outline of this special issue. The papers in this volume show the diversity of approaches and topics that characterize the practice of LED. They are multidisciplinary and depict a variety of approaches from the more theoretical to the applied.
Repository Citation
Carroll, M. C.,
& Blair, J. P.
(2012). Local Economic Development and the Academy. Applied Geography, 32 (1), 51-53.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/econ/347
DOI
10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.11.013
