Brewed Fresh Daily

If few innovations come from committees, why would a community or organization try using committees to create innovations? How important is personal transformation to civic engagement and leadership? What might be possible from more conversations between the business communities and university communities? How can people and organizations collaborate while respecting their respective identities? Does collaboration always need to be permanent and lead to a long-term relationship? How can we share projects while still feeling free to spin off into diverse collaborations? When does permanency become an obstacle to sustainability? What would economic policies look like from a place of abundance instead of scarcity? How important is it that an economic region have a geographical "center" and if so should that center have unique responsibilities in their region? How important is it and why would it be important for regions to compare themselves to others? If it is, what's valuable to compare? How do individuals collaborate around small projects around passionate opportunities? How important is it and why would it be important for regions to compare themselves to others? If it is, what's valuable to compare? What evolutionary value do grassroots new business startups and collaborations add to any local economy? Does the size or foot print of a "region" matter when economic activities are pursued through natural social networks? Is centralized planning, the star of communist regimes, always doomed to be arrogant and alienating? How does scale of the place designed for economic and community development impact the planning process and outcome? Can a community that doesn't know itself have faith in itself? To what extent can large research, academic, and funding institutions in a local economy care about helping 200 grassroots entrepreneurs who want to start up new businesses?