MEAPA Articles

MEAPA's Entropy Article
Unseen Barriers to Growth: Natural Forces Working Against Collaboration, Integration, Community Development and You
MEAPA Entropy Article.pdf
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MEAPA's Article - "Critical Questions for Individuals and Organizations Committed To Growth"
Focuses on ten aspects of today's economy with questions to help assess your level of engagement.
MEAPA Critical Questions article Jan 201[...]
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Seven Questions Communities Should Consider
This article is written for civic leaders, economic development officials and other key stakeholders who would like to think differently in order to achieve and sustain growth.
7 Questions Communities Should Consider [...]
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Think Differently To Reach New Heights
This article is written for anyone interested in learning about the value of thinking differently.
think differently to reach new heights p[...]
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Why It Is Necessary To Rethink Economic Development Now
This article is written for community leaders and anyone else concerned about the need for officials to think differently in order to better adapt to today's challenging economy.
Why It Is Necessary To Rethink Economic [...]
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Rethinking Entrepreneurship Training: Making YOU The Focus of YOUR Small Business
This article is written for entrepreneurs and anyone involved with training small business owners and suggests that 'a small business will only grow as much as the small business owner will grow.'
rethinking entrepreneurship training pdf[...]
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Perhaps It's Time For Community Leaders To Think Differently
This article is written for anyone concerned about a community's ability to achieve and sustain growth amidst an ever changing global economy.
perhaps its time for community leaders t[...]
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Forget the Creative Class...Empower the Creative Mass
This article is written for civic leaders and members of economic development boards that want to harness the level of creativity and energy from the very people and businesses already in the communit
forget the creative class empower the cr[...]
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Three Fundamentals of Marketing Technology in the Creative Economy
This article is written for anyone involved with marketing or selling a technology product in today's hyper-competitive global economy.
three fundamentals of marketing technolo[...]
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Bioscience Marketing in the Creative Economy
This article is written for bioscience executives who would like to commercialize their product or device in today's hyper-competitive global economy.
Bioscience Marketing in the Creative Eco[...]
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Why Do So Many Technology Entrepreneurs Fail
This article is written for anyone involved with selling or marketing a technology product or service.
Why Do So Many Technology Entrepreneurs [...]
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Strategic Value of Segmenting Your Customers
This article is written for bioscience executives who would like to learn how to segment their customers in order to build a more complete marketing plan or forecast.
Strategic Value of Segmenting Your Custo[...]
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The Value of Integrating Marketing into Product Development
This article is written for bioscience executives who are interesting in learning how and why they should integrating marketing early on into the product development process.
Value of Integrating Marketing with Prod[...]
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