We are creating and gathering resources to help you with regional development efforts. Some select resources are listed below. Explore our entire list of resources through our social bookmarking tags on the left.

TRE Networks Library

Core ideas and issues related to TRE Networks are outlined in the following reports and other documents.

• Benchmarking of Economic Development Efforts at Select Research Universities
  (PSU Office of Public Partnerships and Engagement)

• Engaged Scholarship and Transformative Regional Engagement (Franklin and Franklin)

• TRE Networks: A Uniquely American Solution to Regional Development (PSU Office of Public Partnerships and Engagement

• Answering the Question of How:Out-Of-Region University Engagement with an Economically Distressed, Rural Region (Franklin, Sandmann, Franklin, Settle)

• Collaboration to Strengthen Innovation Capacity in Economically Underperforming Regions: Expanding Our National Capacity by Leveraging University Assets to Create Regional Innovation and Talent Hubs (RITH) (NASULGC)

• The Land-Grant Mission 2.0: Distributed Regional Engagement (N. Franklin)

• PA Prosperity Partnerships (Penn State Office of Public Partnerships and Engagement)

Other Resources Recommended by TRE

We are continually on the lookout for resources related to regional development and the role of universities, and we gather these resources in the Diigo social bookmarking tool. The category tags we use for these bookmarks are included on the left - please explore!

Here are some featured resources from our Diigo bookmarks:

• Centers of Invention: Leveraging the Mountain West Innovation Complex for Energy System Transformation (Muro and Rahman, Brookings

• Introduction to Strategic Doing (Morrison)

• Moving from Strategic Planning to Strategic Doing (Morrison)

• Silos of Small Beer: A Case Study of the Efficacy of Federal Innovation Programs in a Key Midwest Regional Economy (Feldman and Lanahan, Center for American Progress)

• Strategic Doing: The Art and Practice of Strategic Action in Open Networks(Morrison)

• Crossing the Next Regional Frontier: Information and Analytics Linking Regional Competitiveness to Investment in a Knowledge-based Economy (EDA project report)

• Reinventing a Region (Institute for Advanced Learning and Research and Virginia Tech)