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Old ways die hard.
EDPros in New Hampshire's the New Hampshire Division of Economic Development’s Business Resource Center are heading in the wrong direction. They are simply trying to shift businesses from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. Read more.
This economic development strategy is an old one: Mississippi pioneered recruitment in the 1930's. The fact that New Hampshire's strategy has not evolved much in seventy years is telling.
This approach makes little sense in a regional economy (New England) that is competing globally. What's worse, it undercuts the cross-border collaborations we need to make our regions globally competitive.
These are the type of efforts -- poaching, to use a perjorative term -- that make so little sense in today's world. We need economic development strategies that increase 21st century skills, boost innovation and accelerate collaboration.
If you want examples of cross borade collaborations that are starting to work, look at the Kansas City metro, or Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, or Louisville and Southern Indiana. Also a number of the 39 WIRED regions cross state lines.
New Hampshire and Massachusetts need "no poaching" agreement, and fast.
Maybe then New Hampshire's EDPros can begin to focus on what matters.
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