1. Urban/Rural Innovation Policy factors and EDD success stories

2. http://www.commerce.gov/americacompetes Obama adds cabinet seat for SBA administrator, proposes merging commerce agencies The Washington Post, 01/13/12

3. Wordle™ of remarks prepared for delivery by John Fernandez, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, at the 18 th Annual Conference of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds in Arlington, Texas, on October 19, 2011. Source: http://www.eda.gov/NewsEvents/Speeches/Speech10192011_SeedAndVentureFunds_TX

5. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/11/jobs_accelerator.html “…the biggest question is what we can do in the public and private sectors to spur job creation. EDA’s Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge is one federal program providing its own compelling answer. This new program is a great example of doing what works— leveraging existing resources to do more with less.”

6. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/21/we-can-t-wait-obama-administration-announces-steps-boost-rural-economy-p

7. http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/RuralJobsAccelerator.html

8. What are EDDs doing to support innovation- based economic development?

9. http://www.nado.org/mobilize-maine-asset-based-regional-economic-development/

13. http://www.nado.org/growing-rural-innovation-based-economies-kansas-opportunity-innovation-network/

16. http://www.pennyrilefuture.com Nine counties in Kentucky & Montgomery County, TN

17. “The 12 counties individually represent average rural communities but together, as a region, the population notably becomes 340,350…making us the 4th largest “county” in the state.” http://www.reditn.com

18. http://www.sacog.org/rucs/