LOCAL & REGIONAL ECONOMIC TRANSITION
LEADE™
LOCAL ECONOMIC ANTICIPATION & DEVELOPMENT ENGINE
WHEN A LOCAL ECONOMY MUST FIND WHAT COMES NEXT.
Industries decline. Technologies change. Employers disappear. Economic advantages erode. For localities and regions facing structural transition, replacing what was lost is rarely enough. LEADE™ helps communities understand what their local economic system is made of, explore what it could become, and develop the entrepreneurial ecosystem and capabilities needed to generate what comes next.
REPRESENTATION
BEFORE ASKING WHAT A REGION SHOULD BECOME, ASK WHAT IT IS.
LEADE™ is not economics; it is a representation of the local economic system.
It makes visible the people, businesses, institutions, assets, capabilities, relationships, resources, constraints and possibilities that shape a locality or region.
From there, participants can ask:
What are we?
What can we do?
What could we become?
ANTICIPATION
LEADE™ brings businesses, institutions, public leaders, entrepreneurs and citizens into a shared exploration of possible local and regional futures.
See change earlier.
Explore alternatives.
Identify emerging possibilities.
Develop a shared view of what the territory could become.
DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOP
LEADE™ helps develop the local conditions from which entrepreneurship, renewal and new economic activity can emerge. Its entrepreneurial ecosystem canvas spans the full local economic spectrum.
The objective is not to reproduce someone else’s model, but to develop an ecosystem shaped around local conditions, capabilities and possibilities.
ECONOMIC RESOURCES
A DIFFERENT VIEW OF LOCAL ECONOMIC RESOURCES
Local economies were historically built around natural resources such as land, water, timber, iron, coal or energy. Increasingly, economic potential also lies in what a territory knows, can learn, connect and create. LEADE™ helps surface these cognitive and relational resources alongside physical, financial, institutional and human ones.
OUTCOMES
WHAT PARTICIPANTS GET
A clearer view of its horizons and possible futures
A stronger understanding of local assets and capabilities
A shared representation of the local economic system
A voice in shaping what comes next
ARTEFACTS
WHAT THEY LEAVE WITH
New connections across the local economy
New entrepreneurial and economic possibilities
Greater capacity to adapt, renew and develop
THE LEADE 3 HORIZONS MATRIX
A shared representation of the territory across Present · Transition · Future — helping participants distinguish what exists today, what is changing, and what could emerge next.
THE LEADE ECOSYSTEM MATRIX
A practical representation of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem — its businesses, community, institutions, capital, intermediaries, public structure and leadership — used to reveal strengths, gaps, relationships and development opportunities.
THE LEADE SUSTAINABILITY MATRIX
A broader representation of the ecosystem within its economic, social, environmental and governance conditions — helping participants consider how future development fits the territory as a whole.
POSITIONING
BEYOND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Traditional economic analysis asks how an economy is performing. LEADE™ asks what the local economy is made of, how it is connected, what capabilities it holds, and what else it could become.
