Technology-based business development initiatives use local, regional and/or national resources to improve the global economic competitive position. Regional development, science cities, technopolis programs, business clusters, and e-clusters have been financed with hopes of improving employment and increasing revenues.
But the results have surprised many. High-potential talent has gone abroad with new business relationships and stayed there. Profit imperatives have driven employment opportunities overseas. The information age and the knowledge revolution have changed the game for technology-based regional development. Flat-world relationships over high-bandwidth channels are changing on a real-time basis. The former concepts of infrastructure support have a new context.
Home-based resources are spent to encourage businesses to compete in the global economy. The challenge, to policy makers and program leaders, is to capture local returns on the investments made locally intended to reach globally. The Innovation Ecosystems Initiative is studying flows of people and resources in technology-based companies - to identify the infrastructure requirements, inflection points and succdess metrics - and to build a new model to guide policy and intervention decisions. Professionals from Paris, Finland, Norway, Malaysia, Tokyo, Britain, Barcelona, Paris, and the United Arab Emirates agree that new concept are needed.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Launch Workshop - Media X at Stanford University
Innovation Ecosystems Benkyo-Kai
The word, "benkyo-kai,"aptly describes a new initiative focused on Innovation Ecosystems. In Japanese tradition, benkyo-kai - study groups - have formed around key technological initiatives. We've formed this one around innovation itself, and the ecosystem conditions in which it thrives.
Optimizing the catalytic impact of public and private investments in technology-based development has been a focus in many countries and regions for several decades. Some experiments of innovation ecosystems – science parks, technology parks, business parks, or business clusters – are heralded as successes; some disappear from awareness; others are deemed failures.Some say we're now living in a global "stimulus economy." Current stimulus programs targeting innovation usher in a new wave of public investment in new experiments. Yet, a clear understanding of success (and failure) factors and metrics for regional information communication technology (ICT) experiments with international interdependencies has not been developed.
We seek to change this with the Innovation Ecosystems Initiative, which focuses on a data-driven analysis and visualization approach. An international group of scientists with expertise in network analysis, information visualization, data mining and integration, regional development, technology transfer, and reputation development propose a comparative study of well-established and new programs for technology-based economic development in ICT.
Four regions - Beijing, China; Tokyo, Japan; Tampere, Finland; and Silicon Valley, USA – have been selected as the starting points for the study.
A Media X Workshop on March 5, 2010, introduced the Innovation Ecosystems Benkyo-Kai to American, Canadian, Asian, and European collaborators, with interests in government, educaiton and business interventions.
We welcome data partners, analysis partners and community-of-practice partners to this benkyo-kai. Contact: martha.russell@stanford.edu
The word, "benkyo-kai,"aptly describes a new initiative focused on Innovation Ecosystems. In Japanese tradition, benkyo-kai - study groups - have formed around key technological initiatives. We've formed this one around innovation itself, and the ecosystem conditions in which it thrives.
Optimizing the catalytic impact of public and private investments in technology-based development has been a focus in many countries and regions for several decades. Some experiments of innovation ecosystems – science parks, technology parks, business parks, or business clusters – are heralded as successes; some disappear from awareness; others are deemed failures.Some say we're now living in a global "stimulus economy." Current stimulus programs targeting innovation usher in a new wave of public investment in new experiments. Yet, a clear understanding of success (and failure) factors and metrics for regional information communication technology (ICT) experiments with international interdependencies has not been developed.
We seek to change this with the Innovation Ecosystems Initiative, which focuses on a data-driven analysis and visualization approach. An international group of scientists with expertise in network analysis, information visualization, data mining and integration, regional development, technology transfer, and reputation development propose a comparative study of well-established and new programs for technology-based economic development in ICT.
Four regions - Beijing, China; Tokyo, Japan; Tampere, Finland; and Silicon Valley, USA – have been selected as the starting points for the study.
A Media X Workshop on March 5, 2010, introduced the Innovation Ecosystems Benkyo-Kai to American, Canadian, Asian, and European collaborators, with interests in government, educaiton and business interventions.
We welcome data partners, analysis partners and community-of-practice partners to this benkyo-kai. Contact: martha.russell@stanford.edu
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