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Strong Regions Smart Business Vital Communities

2005 Annual Convening. Strong Regions Smart Business Vital Communities. February 17-18 Miami, Florida. MetroBusinessNet. Action learning network of business-led civic organizations formed in 2001 Forum for exchanging information and learning from expert practitioners

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Strong Regions Smart Business Vital Communities

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  1. 2005 Annual Convening Strong Regions Smart Business Vital Communities February 17-18 Miami, Florida

  2. MetroBusinessNet • Action learning network of business-led civic organizations formed in 2001 • Forum for exchanging information and learning from expert practitioners • Develop and implement public policies and business practices that support sustainable growth and development at a metropolitan scale • Document lessons and promising practices

  3. Seeking sustainable development Organizing Business Leadership Promoting Competitive Regions MetroBusinessNet

  4. Promoting Competitive Regions • Focus on traded sector, knowledge intensive industries • Nurture and support emerging and established industry clusters • Offer rich network of qualified suppliers • Foster innovation and accelerate diffusion through university-industry partnerships • Produce, attract and retain highly skilled, creative people • Offer high quality of life for residents

  5. Organizing Business Leadership • Business draws on regional resources that cross municipal boundaries • Labor market, housing market, land use and transportation policies directly impact business performance • No single business can drive system change • Collective action required at regional level • Business-led civic organizations galvanize business leadership on critical regional issues

  6. Seeking Sustainable Development • Concentrate development • Coordinate development with transportation and housing • Promote municipal cooperation and coordination • Better connect city and suburbs • Invest in urban core

  7. Convening Outcomes • Deeper understanding of issues • Innovative ideas and approaches • Prioritize strategies/agenda setting • Contacts with leaders in other regions • Renewed commitment

  8. Convening Outcomes • What do business-led civic organizations need to advance their work in these areas? • Is there demand for a national peer learning network?

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