Folks - it's been a fantastic week promoting 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 and many thanks to everyone who's engaged and bought the book already. I'd like to conclude this week with a focus on the very last page of the book - it summarises the...

𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 - 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 The Local and Regional Economic Development Handbook (www.lredhandbook.com ) is structured and written as an economic developer would think about their world, their professional...

The handbook's website has an AI assistant, Eddie, which can be accessed by clicking on "Talk to AI" in the lower right hand side of the screen. Eddie is a RAG-based AI agent with the entire book's contents sitting behind enquiries and reasoning. F𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯...