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Closing Remarks--Mary Good
Pages 123-124

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... Time and patience were important, she agreed, "but we have heard an undercurrent of urgency from essentially all of them. Sovereign states have decided for the most part to front-load economic development and to 123
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... The materials from this meeting can certainly be a part of that." Parks and economic development Dr. Good closed by thanking all participants, and especially the speakers, for being "candid, thoughtful, and insightful." She praised the content of the meeting for its high quality, and said that "with any luck it will be applicable to all of us and beyond as we grapple with the major issues of economic development, for that is what parks are surely about." She said that parks can and must flourish beyond the few dominant centers of science and technology expertise.
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