Monthly Archives: July 2010

Move Over Business Incubators to Make Room for Business Accelerators

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Steve

Yesterday, I participated in an interesting group conversation with an officer of a major foundation. During the conversation, we were told that the foundation no longer supports business incubators or the development of micro-enterprises. The reason? No positive return on … Continue reading →

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Active Learning and Service Learning: Learn by Doing

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Steve

Think about how you learn something new. Although numerous theories of learning exist, fundamentally (and at the risk of oversimplification) there are three basic ways that we learn something new: personal experience, assimilating someone else’s personal experience/expertise, and observation. Two … Continue reading →

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Cultural Events as Sustainable Economic Development: Portuguese Festivals in S.E. Massachusetts

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Steve

Together South Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island contain the largest concentration of Lusophone (Portuguese speaking) people in the U.S.A. Nearly 380,000 people in the region are of Portuguese heritage, mostly from the Azores, more than 250,000 people in the region … Continue reading →

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