Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

The New Economic Reality: Creating A Regional Mindset, Susan Sciame-Giesecke

Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences

Today, one of the key challenges facing community leaders across the country is to build an innovative, prosperous economy to provide jobs and a quality of life for those within their communities. Leaders in each city work hard to attract new businesses and to help those existing businesses successfully compete. Unfortunately, many of these leaders have come to learn that today’s economy is too complex for a single city to master. They have begun to move beyond their local communities and to think of themselves as a part of regional efforts because regions are more competitive in scale and assets …