On November 1, participants of the international training «Regional Economic Development» of the Department of International Trade of the US Department of Commerce were greeted by a number of Lansing organizations: Michigan State University, Center for Public and Economic Development, Department of Agricultural Development, Bureau of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship. The director of socially responsible enterprise «Techno-Image» Oleg Velichko liked the innovative solution of the shortage of technical personnel: seminars and short 4-6 week courses without a special theory with an emphasis on practice instead of losing a long time to receive technical specialties. These courses are inserted into university programs and provide an on-line flow of fledgling specialist to the commercial sector.
The Regional Economic Innovation Center of the Michigan State University at attracted the greatest interest among the represented organizations.
The University Center for Regional Economic Development (REI) of the Michigan State University at the Department of Economic Development of the US Department of Commerce forms a new ecosystem of economic development through the use of higher education resources for the creation, application and expansion of economic development strategies that promote effective development of entrepreneurship, job creation and economic innovation in the state of Michigan. The ecosystem of the university center REI operates on the basis of the REI community – an active virtual community comprising more than 800 participants in strategic partnerships from public organizations and private companies, including: labor management advice, public action committees, state agencies, municipal services, commercial creditors, institutions of higher education, the counties of economic development of the Department of Economic Development of the US Department of Commerce.
