LEDCast
This podcast is about Local Economic Development (LED). The authors will discuss interesting topics in the field of LED. Industry experts will be interviewed and practical tools will be discussed.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 67
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2010
Concept #9: Competition and competitiveness
Shawn and Jorg discuss why some people are uncomfortable with the notion of competition, what the upside and downside of competition is, and how to become competitive.
00:33:20 |
Sat 13 Sep 2008
Cases #13: IBA See -- Conversion of a former open pit mining region
Michael Feiler, project manager at IBA See, explains their experimental, innovation-focused approach to the conversion of a region that has been shaped by decades of open pit lignite mining.
00:28:47 |
Fri 29 Aug 2008
Concept #8: Change management
Jorg Meyer-Stamer and Grant McKenzie discuss what lessons Change Management has to offer for territorial development.
00:31:26 |
Fri 15 Aug 2008
Cases #12: LED in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zdravko Miovcic, director of EDA - Development Agency, Banja Luka, shares experiences and lessons learnt in many years of doing LED in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
00:21:06 |
Fri 01 Aug 2008
Concept #7: Systemic competitiveness
Shawn Cunningham and Jorg Meyer-Stamer discuss the origin and main messages of the concept of Systemic Competitiveness, an approach that helps in formulating a holistic perspective of a local economy…
00:29:43 |
Fri 25 Jul 2008
Cases #11: UNIDO's experience with cluster promotion
Michele Clara, industrial development officer in the Cluster and Business Linkages Unit of the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) shares some of the lessons learnt over many years of clus…
00:25:27 |
Fri 04 Jul 2008
Cases #10: Using radio in local development
Sonja Ende interviews Kasim Abdukadir, who is running a small business-oriented programme in a local radio station in Niger province, Nigeria, and Veronique Stolz, who is with a GTZ programme and pro…
00:19:18 |
Fri 13 Jun 2008
Cases #9: Business Development Committees in Nigeria
Sonja Ende interviews Margaret Joshua who is working with GTZ's LED programme in Nigeria. Margaret shares the experience with Business Development Committees that have been created at a local level i…
00:21:04 |
Fri 30 May 2008
Tools #7: Managing expectations
Jorg Meyer-Stamer and Colin Mitchell discuss why the management of expectations in development activities so often goes wrong.
00:16:04 |
Sat 17 May 2008
Tools #6: PACA
Shawn Cunningham and Jorg Meyer-Stamer discuss the background, main characteristics and evolution of the Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage (PACA) method.
00:25:30 |
Sun 04 May 2008
Cases #8: The Genesis method in Amatole, South Africa
Mpumi Fundam, responsible for LED in the Amatole district municipality (i e the region around East London) in South Africa, and Colin Mitchell, the author of the Genesis method, explain how Genesis h…
00:21:05 |
Sat 19 Apr 2008
Cases #7: Training councillors on LED
Jorg Meyer-Stamer interviews Zini Godden, a South African LED trainer and facilitator, on her experience with LED training courses for councillors, i.e. the elected representatives in local governmen…
00:16:42 |
Sat 12 Apr 2008
Cases #6: Tourism development in a World Cultural Heritage town
Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke has a conversation with Andrea Schunk who is involved in tourism development in Colonia de Sacramento, a world cultural heritage site in Uruguay.
00:23:30 |
Fri 04 Apr 2008
Tools #5: The Compass of Local Competitiveness
Shawn and Jorg explain the Compass, a performance management tool for LED that turns the Balanced Scorecard into a practical and exciting workshop format. You can find a detailed description of the C…
00:26:28 |
Thu 20 Mar 2008
Concept #6: Market failure
Shawn Cunningham and Jorg Meyer-Stamer discuss the issue of market failure: What is it? How can you address it? And how does it relate to other modes of organising economic transactions?
00:28:29 |
Fri 07 Mar 2008
Concept #5: One stop shops
Christian Schoen interviews David Walke on the subject of business registration. David explains the do's and don'ts in the introduction of one stop shops.
00:26:42 |
Sat 01 Mar 2008
Value Chains #6: Social standards
Jorg Meyer-Stamer interviews Peter Knorringa about social standards, the upcoming ISO 26 000 standard and the way in which local actors can respond to global standards.
00:12:43 |
Fri 22 Feb 2008
Case #5: Starting LED in a marble sculpture cluster in Vietnam
Shawn Cunningham and Christian Schoen share insights from a PACA Exercise in the Marble Mountain cluster close to Da Nang, Vietnam. In particular, they discuss how slightly shady business practices i…
00:20:15 |
Fri 15 Feb 2008
Value Chains #5: Cut out the middleman? And then what?
Mark Lundy and Jorg Meyer-Stamer discuss the middleman: Who is he, or she, why is s/he so important, why do local stakeholders often suggest to cut out the middleman, and why is this not necessarily …
00:23:09 |
Thu 07 Feb 2008
Concept #4: Social Capital
Peter Knorringa (ISS, The Hague) explains what social capital is and how it can be addressed in LED.
00:15:17 |
Fri 01 Feb 2008
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