Asset Mapping Roadmap:

A Guide to Assessing Regional Development Resources

Choose a section below to get started. 

1. Introduction: What is Asset Mapping?

Learn how this guidebook is intended to help regional leaders understand and begin implementing an asset mapping process.

2. Value of Asset Mapping

 Read about the five main purposes served by asset mapping.

3. Levels of Asset Mapping

Understand the three basic levels of asset mapping: Asset Identification, Basic Evaluation, and Comprehensive Assessment.

4. Organizing the Mapping Process

Get started with this suggested implementation process, and use it as a model for a customized implementation plan.

5. What Gets Mapped?

Identify both the inputs and outputs of the regional innovation-based economy.

6. Information Sources for Mapping

Gather information for asset mapping from these five primary sources.

7. Documenting and Disseminating Asset Maps

Capture and disseminate information in the most effective and efficient manner.

8. Launching Regional Development Initiatives

Use asset maps to advance a region’s efforts to build an innovation-based economy. 

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