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Prosperity demands rapid adaptation or, if you prefer, resilience. Here’s an article out of Akron about the adaptation of manufacturing firms to new opportunities in health care markets. The trend revealed itself recently in a forum supported by Bio-E and MAGNET. Read more: Healthy Innovation.
As Doug Hall, former P&G exec and founder of Eureka Ranch notes, innovation opportunities can emerge anywhere. The process, however, requires discipline, and Doug has been introducing this discipline to smaller manufacturers nationwide though the same nationwide network in which MAGNET participates.
Here’s an example of an opportunity: Replacing vinyl shower curtains with less toxic materials. Folks in Massachusetts are looking at that one: “New shower curtain smell’ dangerous to health, environment“.
The opportunities will multiply as our universities and businesses learn to collaborate. Read this opinion piece out of Seattle: Educating a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs

Last 5 posts by Ed Morrison

• Food and cancer prevention - August 31st, 2010
• BFD Learning Moment: Detroit moves on design as a strategy - August 30th, 2010
• More on the video gaming software cluster - August 30th, 2010
• Building NEO's clean energy economy - August 29th, 2010
• Mentor Technology Greenhouse - August 29th, 2010

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