A Beckley Common Council workshop on Tuesday sparked a debate on the definition of economic development and how it relates to the more than 100-acre Pinecrest Business and Technology Park property in ...

Colleague Anthony Rebora, over at Education Week’s Teacher Magazine, is live-blogging the National Staff Development Council’s annual conference. He has a really great post up about the definition of ...

To many people outside the advancement office, “development” and “fund raising” are synonymous. Casual observers equate the development office with raising money, pure and simple. To some extent, of ...

The positive decision taken on 5 April 2001 by the European Union’s (EU) Council of Transport Ministers, to proceed with the Development Phase of Galileo, was welcomed by all concerned, including the ...

The grand summit that began in Johannesburg on Monday has an ambitious agenda. The central theme is sustainable development. . For the rich nations, it means the protection of the environment. For the ...

Ed note. Commentary below comes via Project Syndicate, and is reprinted here with permission. Author David Griggs is Director of the Monash Sustainability Institute (MSI) in Australia. Emphasis added.

Development costs are the costs a business incurs from researching, growing and introducing a new product or service. Development costs are commonly referred to as research and development costs.