In one of those too-strange-to-be-true coincidences, Florida Governor Rick Scott vetoed funding for the state’s cutting edge UCF GrowFL economic gardening program. This hard on the heals of the National Economic Gardening Conference held at UCF last month. The Daytona Beach News-Journal carried some reactions:
Economic gardening is a new approach and alternative to traditional economic business development. It uses high-end corporate level tools and cutting edge scientific concepts to help companies do such things as identify markets, monitor markets and track industry trends.
Officials estimate that between 5,000 and 7,000 companies statewide were eligible for the help. Several in Volusia County have participated in the program.
One firm, Mediatech of Holly Hill, was just recently notified that it had been accepted into the GrowFL program.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Florida Gov Plows Under Economic Gardening Project | JC Shepard.com
