Drabenstott outlines regional approach for rural innovation

At the 2008 Arkansas State University Agribusiness Conference, keynote speaker Dr. Mark Drabenstott, Director of the Rural Policy Research Institute's Center for Regional Competitiveness at University of Missouri, discussed the importance of developing regional strategies for economic development of rural areas. Drabenstott laid out six points in developing a regional approach:

1. Think regionally
2. Craft a regional strategy
3. Build sustained regional leadership
4. Connect the region with the right innovation and technology
5. Grow lots and lots of entrepreneurs

You can find a full summary of Drabenstott's talk by Pete Nelson of BioDimensions here.