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You can read more about the new innovation center here.
Coming in November, Cathering Tumber’s new book– Small, Gritty, and Green,The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World — promises to put the Tech Belt transformation into context. Traditional approaches to economic development and planning will not work well in a this new world. We need more agile approaches that emphasize the value of learning by doing.
This step requires mastering open networks. Civic leaders need to learn how to form, manage and guide these open networks to accelerate innovation.
We are starting to see the shift taking place.
Civic leaders across the region are waking to the vital importance of open, collaborative networks and role these networks play in building a more resilient economy. Sean Safford, pointed out the vital role that these networks play in his excellent book, Why the Garden Club Could Not Save Youngstown. You can download a working paper here.
This Fall, the Purdue Center for Regional Development will begin its certification course in Strategic Doing. The Lowe Foundation will be launching another certification in Economic Gardening, a promising approach to developing the civic infrastructures we need to support entrepreneurial eco-systems. A number of states are moving in this direction, such as the Grow FL initiative in Florida.
In Indiana, our Purdue Center for Regional Development is building out the low cost, high leverage Indiana Business Growth Network.
It will be interesting to see of the Tech Belt can master to complexities of open innovation networks.
Last 5 posts by Ed Morrison
- Signing off - February 3rd, 2012
- "The current global development model is unsustainable" - February 1st, 2012
- Market opportunities for developing Chicago's green economy - January 29th, 2012
- Plain Dealer flubs its explanation for firing Tony Grossi - January 27th, 2012
- Linking and leveraging university assets to strengthen regional economies - January 27th, 2012
