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. 


John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools Interview 01-07-10

Building Brainpower: Our Most Competitive Regional Asset

John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools in Cleveland, Ohio, shares a story of transforming education regardless of circumstance - the first step in revitalizing regional economic sustainability.

In this transcription of John's I-Open interview, he describes how he brings his entrepreneurial zeal and experience in building successful for profit enterprises to connect entrepreneurship and education, transforming workforce development for regional prosperity.

Learn about this successful, replicable investment model of innovation in charter school education celebrated this week, June 14, 2011 - "100% of E Prep's 8th graders and 100% of The Intergenerational School's 8th graders passed the Ohio Achievement READING Assessment. #1 in the county." - John Zitzner.

More about John's work and the work of others building successful charter schools at Breakthrough Charter Schools.

Learn from civic intelligence at these I-Open communities:


    •    Facebook I-Open http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Open/170817416694
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    •    Friendfeed http://friendfeed.com/iopen
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    •    Posterous http://i-open.posterous.com/
    •    Scribd http://www.scribd.com/I-Open
    •    Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2
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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

 

 

Closing the Brainpower Gap: Transforming Regions One Student at a Time

John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools in Cleveland, Ohio, shares a story of transforming education regardless of circumstance - the first step in revitalizing regional economic sustainability.

You can visit E City to learn more about how this model of innovation in education works.

Breakthrough Charter Schools, a replicable model of innovation in charter school education, celebrated  "100% of E Prep's 8th graders and 100% of The Intergenerational School's 8th graders passed the Ohio Achievement READING Assessment. #1 in the county" - John Zitzner, June 2011.

Learn from civic intelligence at these I-Open communities:


    •    Facebook I-Open http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Open/170817416694
    •    Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/iopen/sets/72157623351094216/
    •    Friendfeed http://friendfeed.com/iopen
    •    Livestream http://www.livestream.com/iopen/
    •    Posterous http://i-open.posterous.com/
    •    Scribd http://www.scribd.com/I-Open
    •    Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2
    •    Twitter http://twitter.com/iopen2
    •    Vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/user1999383
    •    You Tube http://www.youtube.com/user/IOpen2

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