Earlier this week, the Center for Regional Economic Issues, which I head, announced a new partnerships with the Charleston Digital Corridor. We will be providing the Corridor with new Internet-based tools to build innovation and entrepreneurship networks. The Corridor will be providing us some useful insights on how to improve these tools.
In addition, the Corridor is adopting some of our experiments in "smart meeting design". Every week, we hold an open session, Tuesdays@REI. We use this forum to build community engagement. Our partner, Catalyst Strategies, is helping us refine these formats.
The Corridor will be launching Fridays at the Corridor.
We are also learning how to support collaboration between face-to-face meetings with open source collaboration tools. We are working with our partner, Smart Meeting Design, to build these open source tools, called Smart Workspaces.
Learn more about our partnership with the Digital Corridor. Go.
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The purpose of this weblog is to help economic development professionals -- EDPros -- keep up with the changes sweeping our profession. Strap on your goggles. It's a whole new game. There are no experts any more. The only place to learn about economic development is from other EDPros who are doing it.
One other point: the prevaling approach (paradigm, if you like) in economic development is shifting from competition to collaboration. There are a lot of reaasons underlying this shift, but here's the important insight: You, your community, and your region will do better by collaborating and sharing information.
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Speaking and workshops on Open Source Economic Development
As the idea of Open Source Economic Development starts spreading, more people are asking about it. Visit the I-Open web site to learn more. My colleagues and I are happy to explain the basic concepts in a talk or a workshop. E-mail Susan Alshuler if you'd like to learn more about workshops and speaking.
Background on Ed Morrison
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Digital Corridor partners with Case Western Reserve
