Development

Development or developing may refer to:

Business

• Business development, a process of growing a business
• Career development
• Corporate development, a position in a business
• Energy development, activities concentrated on obtaining energy from natural resources
• Green development, a real estate concept that considers social and environmental impact of development
• Land development, altering the landscape in any number of ways
• Land development bank, a kind of bank in India
• Leadership development
• New product development
• Organization development
• Professional development
• Real estate development
• Research and development
• Training and development
• Fundraising, also called "development"

Biology and medicine

• Child development, between birth and the end of adolescence
• Development (journal), an academic journal in developmental biology
• Developmental biology, the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop
• Developmental psychology, the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life
• Drug development, the entire process of bringing a new drug or device to the market
• Embryogenesis, or development, the process by which the embryo is formed
• Human development (biology), the process of growing to maturity
• Neural development, the processes that generate, shape, and reshape the nervous system
• Personal development, or self-help
• Prenatal development, the process in which a human embryo or fetus gestates during pregnancy
• Tooth development or odontogenesis
• Youth development

Computing

• Artificial development, an area of computer science and engineering
• Software development, the development of a software product
• Web development, work involved in developing a web site
• Mobile app development, act or process by which a mobile app is developed

Entertainment

• Development (album), a 2002 album by Nonpoint
• Development hell, when a project is stuck in development
• Filmmaking, development phase, including finance and budgeting
• Musical development, a compositional process
• Photographic development
• Video game development

Social science

• Community development, practices to improve various aspects of communities
• Development communication
• Developing country, a nation with a less developed industrial base
• Development aid, financial aid given by governments and other agencies
• Development geography, a branch of geography which refers to the standard of living and quality of life of inhabitants
• Development studies, most widely taught and researched in the third world and in countries with a colonial history
• Development theory
• Economic development, the process by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social well-being of its people
• European Development Fund, the main instrument for European Union (EU) aid for development
• Human Development Index, used to rank countries by level of human development
• Human development (humanity), the science that seeks to understand how and why people of all ages and circumstances change or remain the same over time
• International development, usually level of economic development
• Regional development, aid and assistance to regions which are less economically developed
• Rural development, the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas
• Sociocultural evolution, how cultures and societies have changed over time
• Sustainable development
• World Development (journal), an academic journal on international development

Other uses

• Development (differential geometry), rolling one smooth surface over another
• Development (topology), a countable collection of open coverings
• Development, a term used in chess
• Development of doctrine, a term used by John Henry Newman to describe Catholic teachings
• Driver development program, a program used by racing teams to develop younger drivers