The State of the Basin is an indicator and monitoring program originally developed by Columbia Basin Trust (CBT). Now a project of the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute (RDI), the State of the Basin initiative involves collecting, analyzing and reporting on indicators in order to build...Read more
This report describes findings from a Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) survey conducted at 60 businesses in the City of Kimberley. BRE is an action-oriented and community-based approach to business and economic development. It promotes job growth by helping communities to learn about...Read more
The purpose of the Employment Lands research project was to better understand the landscape of wealth generating lands in the Columbia Basin-Boundary region of BC. An integrated economic development-geospatial lands analysis was undertaken to better understand opportunities and constraints...Read more
This Regional Shipping and Logistics Analysis has been undertaken for the Columbia Basin Trust (the “Trust”) by Davies Transportation Consulting Inc. in collaboration with Wave Point Consulting Ltd. and S5 Services. The scope of the project includes analysis of the shipping and logistics...Read more
Building a 21st Century Work “Place” in Rural British Columbia
Outline
1. Introduction and context
2. Why a workforce strategy?
3. How did we get here?
4. Theory of change
5. Strategic foundations (what we control)
6. Structural...Read more
Powerpoint presenting MIDAS Lab, training and commercialization services as a solution to the problem of industry capacity to learn & adopt new prototyping technology and process.Read more
Powerpoint presenting what information like the Labour Force data and BRE (Business Retention & Expansion) tell us, as well as the key considerations to keep moving forward to build a 21st Century Workforce Learning Summit.Read more
Powerpoint by Dr. Lukas Bichler, P. Eng., presenting the School of Engineering of University of British ColumbiaRead more
Powerpoint presentation by Scott Weatherford (ATCO Wood Products) about the 21st Century Forest Industry Workforce (June 2017)Read more
Over the last 20 years there are 4 key lessons that have emerged from research on innovation:
