Import Substitution
Links
Import
Substitution Program Web Sites
Information
Sharing and Networking Programs:
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Oregon Marketplace
- This program was one of the first state-level marketplace initiatives
in the United States, active since 1986.
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Business
Retention, San Joaquin County, California - County-level program seeks
to retain local businesses by providing information about potential suppliers
and customers.
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Match Maker
Procurement Services, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania - A non-profit economic
development agency devoted to establishing partnerships between local businesses.
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Buy Alaska - State
program to match business suppliers and consumers.
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Alberta First
- Alberta is the most active province in Canada for economic development.
This privately-owned site details existing businesses as well as opportunities
for new businesses.
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Australia and New Zealand
Industrial Supplies Office - An inter-governmental consortium that
links manufacturing suppliers and purchasers.
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Enterprise
Hamilton - A non-profit organization that provides information on suppliers
of goods and services in Hamilton and across the nation of New Zealand.
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Cairns Region Economic
Development Corporation - Government economic development agency in Queensland, Australia, that
maintains a searchable database of local manufacturing and industry suppliers.
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Buy Northeast Lincolnshire
- Maintains a bulletin board to link manufacturing suppliers and purchasers
in northeast England. Explicitly encourages local supply chaining
- see their local chaining
page.
Buy Local Campaigns:
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Made in the USA Foundation
- Along with other things, this organization attempts to reduce American
reliance on foreign imports.
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The Made
in New York Store - Promotes products (mostly consumer- and tourist-oriented)
made in the Big Apple.
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Made in Oregon
- Similar to the New York site, but with a West Coast style.
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Made in Pennsylvania
- This site provides business-oriented information, as well as products
for tourists and other consumers.
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Made in Alaska
- Promotes Alaskan-made items, with a special focus on Native (Inuit) art
and craftwork.
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Buy Burleson,
Texas - A listing of local businesses designed for consumers and businesses
alike.
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Australian Tourism Bureau - Policy
group that works to enhance the international competitiveness of Australia's
tourism industry and keep Australian travelers within the country.
Industry
Targeting:
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Economic
Development Resource Guide, Alaska - The state of Alaska, in association
with the University of Alaska system, provides information and resources
for local economic development, including programs focused on entrepreneurs
and on import substitution. Check out the Alaska
Cooperative Extension and the University of Alaska at Anchorage Center
for Economic Development.
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Lancaster
Redevelopment Agency, California - This local economic development
agency is one that targets incentives to industries that are deemed to
be well-suited to the area, with criteria including import substitution
among others.
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British Columbia Business
Service Center - Directed to economic developers, local businesses,
and entrepreneurs alike, this provincial bureau provides information on
economic development strategies, including import
substitution.
Also, see last year's page on
Industry
Targeting for Planning 261, created by Richard Reichle.
Economic
Base
Web sites for economic base
theory are few and far between. For more on this subject, please
consult the text references on the Resources page
(especially Blumenfeld, 1955 and Malizia
and Feser, 1998).
Entrepreneurship
There are many commercial
sites and resources for entrepreneurs. This is just a small sampling
of what is available:
General
Economic Development Sites
And check out the other
economic development web sites created for Planning 261, this year
and last year!