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The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary
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network:

... a group that engages in networking; an environment for building, renewing, and maintaining relationships which facilitates business development or social networking, or a combination of both. The enterprise and economic development process is immobilized without networks ... without, for example, those who make up the core group of users of The Network and those whom they know as mission contacts finding each other and getting together to communicate about matters of mutual assistance or support.
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related: about networks; economic development network; site selection network
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The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary
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a resource of the .network library
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economic development network:

... a group of stakeholders in the enterprise and economic development process who regularly engage in informal communication for mutual assistance or support. Area and local development representatives are on one side of the networking that goes on. They make up a network's core user group. Area and local development representatives surround themselves with allies and partners as the economic development core of networks. .

On the other side of the building and maintenance of relationships that goes on in economic development networks are resource and service providers looking for business development opportunities. They especially look for opportunities to become members of prospect assistance teams. Participants in economic development networks may see themselves as being involved in site selection or enterprise development networks.

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