Several county governments are helping medium-sized businesses learn to walk, so they can someday be up and running on a booming scale.

Economic gardening, a term coined to describe government support of medium-sized businesses poised for growth, is catching on throughout the country, most recently in Hillsborough County, Fla., though regional and state programs are becoming the norm.

Florida coordinates all economic gardening on a statewide level, through the University of Central Florida’s Economic Gardening Institute. 

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