Gleanings from the TBED Presses

Two of SSTI's sister organizations for promoting technology-based economic development (TBED) had items of potential interest to the readers of the SSTI Weekly Digest in their e-newsletters this week. The highlights below include links for more information.

Broadband

The April 1 issue of the Southern Compass, the electronic newsletter of the Southern Growth Policies Board, alerted SSTI to A Broadband World: The Promise of Advanced Services. The paper, written by Matthew Benett of the Alliance for Public Technology (APT), provides case studies of the successful incorporation of broadband applications for local and regional public service delivery. The report is available at: http://apt.org/confer/broadband-world.pdf  Free email subscriptions to the Southern Compass and back issues can be obtained at: http://www.southern.org/compass/index.asp

Entrepreneurship

The March 31 issue of E-News, the bi-weekly newsletter from the National Commission on Entrepreneurship, included several brief items of note:

• Entrepreneur magazine's rankings of the top entrepreneurship education programs at the nation's colleges and universities;
• Women Entrepreneurs, Their Ventures, and the Venture Capital Industry, an annotated bibliography of almost 300 articles related to VC and women;
• Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development: Programme and Policy Recommendations, a new title from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and,
• A synopsis of a study from the February edition of the Creative Intelligence newsletter that correlates regional economic growth with increased income disparities.

This week's edition of E-News is available online: http://www.ncoe.org/newsletter/enews/03_31_03.html  Free subscriptions can be established at: http://www.ncoe.org/newsletter/subscribe/