Source: University of California, Davis
Program: Department of Human & Community Development
Course: CRD241 - The Economics of Community Development
Instructor: Martin Kenney
Description
This is a practicum class as it revolves around practical research that could be of use to a local government, namely researching entrepreneurial clusters. You will be working in teams that will actually undertake the research. From the 2005 class, the entire Madison, WI team was invited and went to the University of Wisconsin, Madison to do research and present their findings at the business school. Amy Nelson did her Master’s thesis on Madison and co-wrote a paper for the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Another student in the class Jessica Mullan wrote her Master’s thesis with me on a contract with the InterAmerican Development Bank. The UC Davis map was posted on the UC Davis CONNECT website and was presented at the Davis City Council in December 2007. Finally, the 2009 class prepared a paper that has now been submitted to the top geography journal, the Journal of Economic Geography.
Syllabus - CRD241: The Economics of Community Development