Insights In Open Source Economic Development

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I-Open Leadership Retreat

Newbury, Ohio

Ed Morrison, Economic Policy Advisor at Purdue University and Co-Founder, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), teaches an introduction to Open Source Economic Development at the December 2008 I-Open Leadership Retreat, Newbury, Ohio. 

In this session, Ed incorporates new insights about the shifts occurring in education, economic, and workforce development with clear examples of innovation happening today in open networked economies.

I-Open Leadership Retreats introduce participants to Strategic Doing, a simple but disciplined process to move ideas to action quickly.

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You can view or download the session transcription at I-Open on Scribd below:

Ed Morrison Presentation Transcription 12-04-08

I-Open Social Network Maps

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Social network maps strengthen transparency by indicating where and with whom an entrepreneur or organizational leader can access information and resources. 

The 2003 Northeast Ohio Economic Development Social Network map shown above maps organizations and institutions in Northeast Ohio who invest in economic development. The arrows indicate directional flow of information. Colors designate TYPE of organization ... light green are all of the Universities, Grey are Government, Dk Green Commercial Biz, etc. This map was generated by Valdis Krebs, Founder and Chief Scientist, Orgnet.com and creator of Network Visualization - InFlow 3.01, and George Nemeth from public data.

Maps are tools to enable communities to visualize connectivity and, acting as intermediaries, strengthen connection or complete a connection between human talent, resources and capabilities. I-Open maps published in the Flickr set below were generated by Dennis Coughlin, I-Open using InFlow 3.01. See the Network Map Inventory below the set for corresponding title information.

 

Open Economic Networks Map Inventory


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I-Open Civic Wisdom Library Index 2010

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The I-Open Civic Wisdom Library is an archive of video interviews contributed by entrepreneurial leaders in research and industry. Stories share individual perspectives and accounts of insight - civic intelligence - through the lens of the Innovation Framework, a heuristic model of investment in Open Source Economic Development.

Interviews are available at I-Open's channel on Livestream. Scroll down the broadcast channel page to access the Archive Folders. Share your favorite links on Twitter and Facebook and embed the player on your blog and website! Share Civic Wisdom Widely! 

I-Open Civic Wisdom Library Index 2010

Learn from the wisdom of civic leaders across I-Open communities:

Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave Suite 301 Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA

Branding: How to Share Your I-Open Interview

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Street Branding

Photo: Alice Merkel

Business, government, academic, and civic leaders have contributed over 10,000 minutes of knowledge, insights and innovations to I-Open interview and conversation research.

Each interview yields unique ideas, perspectives and discoveries to inform and guide leaders in education, economic, and workforce development.

Sharing information promotes higher levels of creativity and opens doors to unforeseen business collaborations. In the socially connected world of an innovation economy, sharing what you know increases your value to those you attract.

Interview information is published as video, document, image, and creative digital media and shared across I-Open social media platforms and their communities. You'll find a wealth of civic knowledge listed under "Libraries" on this blog's right side bar.

If you're a leader interested to know how to share your knowledge further, or just need a nice nudge to remember to share widely, we've assembled a how-to of simple steps for you to take below.

How to Share Your Interview Information

Civic Wisdom Quote: the length of our vision is equal to the depth of our passion

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"The depth and clarity of our passion is equal to the length and diversity of our vision."

- Jack Ricchiuto, Designer and Writer, DesigningLife.com, Cleveland, Ohio

 

I-Open Civic Wisdom Quotes guide the investment strategy of business leaders in Open Source Economic Development.

Quotes are taken from I-Open research, a library of instructive interviews contributed by leaders in civic, government, academia, and business.

Narratives and images share the story of wisdom in the Civic Space, the area outside the four walls of any organization.

Each quote offers guidance to us as we seek to earn trust and respect in our conversations and collaborations to build social and economic capacity.

You can learn more about I-Open Interview and Conversation Research at I-Open on Scribd. If you would like to contribute an interview about your work, please send us an email at info@i-open.org 

Images by Alice Merkel on Flickr.

Material is Copyright 2010 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and contributed to The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), a not-for-profit educational economic organization.

Civic Wisdom Quote - Gloria Ferris, Civic Leader and Blogger

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"We need to know that as we move forward in the twenty-first century of work we have to collaborate, support, and affirm each other."

- Gloria Ferris, Northeast Ohio Civic Leader and Blogger

I-Open Civic Wisdom Quotes guide civic leaders in Open Source Economic Development.

Quotes are taken from I-Open research, a diverse library of interviews contributed by leaders in civic, government, academia, and business for sharing.

Narrative and images share a deeper, wider story of wisdom in the Civic Space - the area outside the four walls of any organization - where we are affected equally.

The wisdom of the Civic Space helps us to act in ways that build trust and respect, cornerstones of agile, entrepreneurial cultures.

You can learn more about I-Open Interview and Conversation Research at I-Open on Scribd. If you would like to contribute an interview about your work, please send us an email at info@i-open.org

Images by Alice Merkel on Flickr.

Material is Copyright 2010 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and contributed to The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), a not-for-profit educational economic organization.

Transforming the University's Role in Regional Engagement

Ed Morrison, Economic Policy Advisor, Purdue Center for Regional Development, and I-Open Co-Founder, outlines how collaborations between universities accelerate regional economic transformation. 

The presentation points to a new model developed by Purdue University, Penn State University, and the University of Akron to create a network of practitioners focused on advancing regional transformation. This important multi-university collaboration is an example for leaders to replicate, connecting knowledge and place-based legacy assets to economic development. 

Ed developed Strategic Doing - a simple, yet disciplined process to foward ideas to action quickly - with the I-Open team while working at the Center for Regional Economic Issues, Case Western Reserve University 2003-2005, and has continued to apply the process to advance innovation in regional networks. 

The I-Open Civic Forum process, also developed at that time, builds the open, neutral spaces and sophisticated communications introducing Strategic Doing to business, government, and academic leaders accelerating transformational initiatives and projects.

Strategic Doing has been adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor and many other large funded organizations, government, and academic entities to advance national economic prosperity in regions.

You can learn more about Strategic Doing at I-Open on Scribd.

Learn how Civic Forums and Strategic Doing intrinsically generate economic prosperity in the paper, I-Open Civic Forums Strengthen Entrepreneurship and Business Development in Network Economies. 


How to Share Your I-Open Interview Information

I-Open interviews gather information through the lens of the Innovation Framework, a heuristic map for thinking and doing in Open Source Economic Development.

This document offers starting points to share your interview information with your networks.

You can learn more about industry innovation by listening to I-Open interviews and conversations and reading transcriptions on Scribd.


 


Free to Paid: embedding the creative industries in digital culture

The Free to Paid map visualizes the impact of the creative industries on experience and it's relationship to monetization of content and publishing.

As we build networks for service and enterprise in Open Source Economic Development, the creative industries and digital technologies play a determining role in how we interact with information.

Are you an entrepreneurial co-creator, or are you a creative consumer? New paradigms in experience and publishing offer multi-media innnovation opportunities.

Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA

Extended deadline: CALL FOR PAPERS: COINs2010 – 2nd Int'l Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks, Oct 7-9, 2010

I-Open is a co-sponsor of the upcoming COINs 2010 Conference. Please see this important conference update:

Following several requests from colleagues, the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to Thursday Aug 12th.

“COINs are everywhere!”

Oct 7-9, 2010, SCAD Savannah
Deadline for abstract submission: Extended to August 12, 2010

The second international conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) brings together practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration. The emergence of online social networks opens up unprecedented opportunities to read the collective mind, discovering emergent trends while they are still being hatched by small groups of creative individuals. The Web has become a mirror of the real world, allowing researchers to study and better understand why some new ideas change our lives, while others never make it from the drawing board of the innovator.

Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs, are cyberteams of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by technology to collaborate in innovating by sharing ideas, information, and work. Although COINs have been around for hundreds of years, they are especially relevant today because the concept has reached its tipping point thanks to the Internet. COINs are powered by swarm creativity, wherein people work together in a structure that enables a fluid creation and exchange of ideas. ‘Coolhunting’ – discovering, analyzing, and measuring trends and trendsetters – puts COINs to productive use. Patterns of collaborative innovation frequently follow an identical path, from creator to COIN to collaborative learning network to collaborative interest network.

The theme of the conference combines a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as social network analysis, group dynamics, design and visualization, information systems and the psychology and sociality of collaboration.

We invite researchers to submit their latest scientific results on

Global Collaboration Networks (Global focus)
· Organizational optimization in COINs
· Virtual Communication and Collaboration
· Measuring the performance of COINs
· Patterns of swarm creativity
· Trust, Privacy, Risk, Transparency and Security in social contexts

Group Collaboration (Group focus)
· Collaborative Leadership
· Design and visualization in interdisciplinary collaboration
· Group dynamics and global teaming in virtual collaboration

Microscopic aspects of collaboration (Individual focus)
· Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, Influence Process
· The psychology and sociality of collaboration
· Social Behavior Modeling
· Social Intelligence and Social Cognition

Tools and Methods focus
· Social System Design and Architectures
· Dynamic Social Network Analysis
· Semantic Social Network Analysis

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: extended to Aug 12, 2010

Authors notification: Aug 20, 2010

Final manuscript due: Sept 20, 2010

Program Dates: October 7, 8 and 9, 2010.

Paper submission
Submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to the program chair Julia Gluesing at  < j.gluesing@wayne.edu >
Accepted papers (16 pages max) will be published in the conference proceedings in the Elsevier Procedia series

Should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings.


Program Committee

John Bucuvalas, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Richard Colletti, (University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont)
Marco De Maggio (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)
Elenna Dugundji (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Kai Fischbach (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Peter Gloor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Julia Gluesing, chair (Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan)
Francesca Grippa (Northeastern University, Boston)
Takashi Iba (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
Stokes Jones (Lodestar, Atlanta, Georgia)
Casper Lassenius (Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland)
Peter Margolis, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Betsey Merkel (I-Open, Cleveland, Ohio)
Chris Miller (SCAD, Savannah, Georgia)
Maria Paasivaara (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland)
Johannes Putzke (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Ken Riopelle (Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.)
Detlef Schoder (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Michael Seid, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)

Conference Web Site: http://www.coins2010.com
Full Call for Papers: http://www.scribd.com/doc/32955537/COINs2010-Call-for-Papers