Sustainable Future Cities, Towns and Communities (II)
We started the first blog on the Economic Development 4.0 approach (hereafter referred to as ED 4.0) with Paul Watzlawick’s story about the man looking for his key. We highlighted the difference of this approach from traditional fields and called for a broader perspective and a new search process in the field of local and regional economic development. In this blog, we delve deeper into the areas of experimentation that the ED 4.0 approach emphasizes as well as how other economic development organizations and we at Mesopartner can broaden our perspective and rethink our practice.
Figure 1: The requirements to open up our perspective

In Germany the ED 4.0 approach is already being implemented in various cities and municipalities of different sizes (including Osnabrück, Wuppertal, Witzenhausen). Experiences from different EU countries were evaluated to define the experimental fields of the approach.
„Economic Development 4.0: Experimental fields and own reflections for our work practice (Blog 2)“ weiterlesen