ABSTRACT
Extension economic development professionals have noted several challenges they commonly encounter when using targeted industry lists, or for that matter other common tools, with community economic development teams (Homm et al. 2003). These include:
Often an effective way to deal with such challenges is to present community teams with comprehensive economic development programmes that educate and inform them about a few tools that they need, but also about the conceptual bases, rationales, interdependencies, and limitations of available tools.
