Ed Morrison · More open source collaboration at YBI

November 14th, 2008

Julie Smith at the Youngstown Business Incubator shares a Third Thursday at Three event next week on advanced manufacturing.

You can learn more here.

Third Thursday at Three is one of the civic forums (like Midtown Brews) that serves an important economic development function. Patterned after Tuesdays@REI, these forums uncover and strengthen the networks needed to guide strategy in a regional economy. (Julie and about 6 others from Youngstown attended an I-Open training at the Lowe Foundation in Michigan.)

Here are some additional developments:

  • Next week, I’ll be in Idaho, where we will be taking these open source approaches statewide in the Governor’s Workforce Summit.
  • Last week, Valdis Krebs was at the Purdue Center for Regional Development conducting a training seminar on the latest version of his powerful software for social network analysis, Inflow.
  • I-Open will be partnering with the Center for Education Innovation and Regional Economic Development in Southeast Wisconsin to bring open innovation practices to a collaborative of 30+ school districts.
  • Yesterday, I was at the Department of Labor designing a program to support open source workforce development in 55 regions across the country involved in DOL’s regional transformation initiative.
  • In May, Purdue and the University of Oklahoma are launching the first advanced professional certificate in open source economic development.

    • The open source model is taking hold in economic and workforce development. In this region: look for Akron, Youngstown and Lorain to lead the way.

    Like clockwork, Jim Cossler sent this note around this AM:

    We are pleased to announce that YBI portfolio company, Eris Medical Technologies, has received a $100,000 investment from the Innovation Alliance Fund. The Fund is a partnership of Lorain County Community College, the University of Akron Research Foundation, and GLIDE, an Edison Incubator sister organization of YBI.

    Eris will use the proceeds to finish the Beta test trials and speed the commercialization of the firm’s revenue integrity technology that identifies lost charge capture opportunities for hospitals and medical centers. You can learn more about the product at www.erismed.com.

    Akron and Lorain investing investing cold, hard cash in a Youngstown software company.

    That, ladies and gentlemen, is real regional cooperation.

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