George Nemeth · The “Cleveland Valley”

June 18th, 2008

From Chris Varley:

TheStreet.com’s Jim Cramer sees Cleveland and the surrounding rust belt environs as harboring the next wave of true innovation, trumping even the much vaunted Silicon Valley. From ValleyWag…

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3 Responses to “The “Cleveland Valley””

  1. Douglas Craver Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 11:32 am

    Now if our public and private leaders can get out of the way, practice transparency and open source ED…

  2. Ed Morrison Says:
    June 21st, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    Doug:

    The embrace of Open Source Economic Development is happening in Lorain and Akron (look at the Innovation Alliance forming) and in Youngstown (anchored by the YBI).

    Across the Midwest, you are seeing this approach take hold in Indiana and SE Wisconsin (Milwaukee).

    In a couple of weeks, the Water Council in Milwaukee will be conducting a “strategic doing” session.

    (Strategic doing is a discipline for developing and executing strategy in an open network.)

    In the fall, Purdue and the University of Oklahoma will be starting a graduate certificate course in Open Source Economic Development.

  3. Douglas Craver Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    Ed,

    Thanks for the update. I look for Akron and Youngstown to lead the way on this and at some point Cleveland’s leadership to reluctantly embrace. Hopefully sooner than later.