edited by: Lisa Renee Ward,
Ohio Editor
Research from Purdue’s Department of Child Development and Family Studies just released. In the paper, the authors provide a detailed description of how problem gambling impacts families…
[T]he negative financial consequences of problem gambling can occur quickly and can result in extensive financial consequences for other people. [...]
A major competitive opportunity has been staring Cleveland in the face for at least five years, and no one at the Greater Cleveland Partnership seems to get it.
The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage
Instead, I wonder, how much time and money the GCP [...]
When I was growing up, Gordon Cobbledick, PD Sport Editor, lived across the street. He’d often ask us to come to the Brown games.
Brother Hunter and I sat there shivering in the old Municipal Stadium, but we had great seats to watch some amazing players: Jim [...]
Philadelphia and Chicago are both leading cities when it comes to implementing “green” strategies and sustainable development.
About a week ago, the Philadelphia Environmental Council released a report on building a green infrastructure in Philadelphia. You can access a copy of the report from this page
Here is a YouTube [...]
Interesting opportunities with Weatherhead and the Cleveland Institute of Art, I suspect…
When I was at REI, our best interns came from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Does Integrated Creativity Exist Today?
Interesting idea? Check out Fast Company’s expert design blogs for more.
BTW, whatever happened to the idea of a [...]
Yesterday, I participated in Region Day at The University of Akron. Over 400 participants from leadership programs across the 16 counties of Northeast Ohio registered for the event. In the morning, they listen to Ned Hill of Cleveland State University and Christine Maher of the Fund for Our Economic Future [...]
Report on Ohio Gaming Initiative by Hiram College
For the past week, I’ve been exploring Barcelona, a city with an advanced urban form. As city planners and economic developers look for insights into how to regenerate older industrial cities, the lessons of Barcelona will serve as important guides.
Cities in Europe are redefining themselves through [...]
CLE+ might learn a few things from Barcelona, where I’m hanging out for a few days.
The Barcelona City Card features free travel on public transport and over 100 discounts and free offers at museums, cultural venues, entertainment, leisure attractions, evening venues, shops and restaurants. You can [...]
Another piece to creating the culture of innovation is introducing the Innovation Think Tank to agile strategic planning through the assistance of Jack Ricchiuto, designer and author on creativity (www.DesigningLife.com), in providing a new model for operating in our businesses. Branded as Strategic Doing 365, this is a process [...]
Fourteen years ago, a small group of us set out to change the economic dynamics of Oklahoma City. At the time OKC lagged far behind similar capital cities like Nashville, Austin, Indianapolis [...]
Strongsville’s new business guide for starting a business. Download a copy.
Strongsville Economic Development Department publishes small business guide
Random Posts A PDF of Mayor Frank Jackson PD OpEd titled “Cleveland is a Great City” [...]Dan Mouthrop posts this note to his Twitter feed:
hilarious news from inside city hall @HenryJGomez [bit.ly]
(Note: IBM introduced its industry standard laptop in the early 1990’s. Netscape released the first web browser about 1995. OMB established the first eGovernment task force in 2001. Local governments began implementing the [...]
Chris Thompson of the FFEF has asked us at Purdue and The University of Akron to help out with a Strategic Doing session later this month in Akron. The session will include NEO regional leadership groups.
Folks can get a sense of Strategic Doing from the materials I posted [...]
Study: Cleantech fuels local economy
On Monday, I’ll be in Orlando introducing Florida’s business leadership to Strategic Doing at their Future of Florida Forum. Florida is launching their Talent Caucus and will be using Strategic Doing as their strategy framework.
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Good interview on the MA strategy, including emerging clusters in gaming and design:
“Not Your Father’s Route 128″: Jason Schupbach Promotes Massachusetts’ Creative Economy Random Posts Councilman Cummins’ Restructuring Proposal Medical Shows Flat at Best in 2008 The Next [...]“The philosophy works because it’s all based on relationships and trust. And people don’t understand, but it’s so simple. You have to be consistent.”
Self-Made Educator Fulfills a Vision for Boys in Cleveland Random Posts Politics: Parallel realities, a viral video and Ohio [...]
The Cleveland business leadership has never seen this as much of an economic development opportunity for Cleveland+.
I have no idea why not.
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Time to stop looking elsewhere
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Interesting model: Milwaukee BizStarts
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BFD Learning Moment: West Michigan
The art of creating a connected community
I’m going to LEGOLand
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And this is economic development for Ohio?
How silly.
How sad.
Casinos spend millions to make losers feel like winners
See also:
* Audio timeline: A gambler’s tragedy
* Interactive: Slot tutorial and calculator
* Profile: A family man’s tragic transformation
That’s how David Pilbeam, a Harvard paleontologist, describes the work of a team of scientists based in Northeast Ohio:
“This is an extraordinary achievement, of discovery, recovery, reconstitution, description and analysis, which will keep many others busy for at least another 15 years.”
In the mid-1990’s Pittsburgh began pulling away from Cleveland in the pace of its regeneration.
Pittsburgh, City of Renewal
Summit Spotlights ‘Steel City’s’ Extreme Makeover
Rust Belt renaissance in global spotlight
In Pittsburgh, a Road Map for a Recovery
G-20 Host Pittsburgh Shows its Resilience
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In Taiwan, judges do not mess around with public officials convicted of corruption…
Chen Shui-bian and Wu Shu-chen were sentenced to life in prison because Chen has done grave damage to the country…
Taiwanese Ex-President Is Convicted
A heavy sentence was issued against the ex-president’s former close adviser Ma Yung-cheng, who received [...]
The University of Akron Research Foundation won the University Economic Development Association’s National 2007 Award of Excellence in Technology Commercialization, ranks first in the state in rate of return per research dollar, and has helped start up some two-dozen companies since it was founded, which is competitive with many larger [...]
“The Greater Philadelphia Green Business Program was made for businesses, created by business leaders…”
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BFD Learning Moment: MOSourceLink
Best performing cities
links for 2008-11-26
BFD Learning Moment: Dayton’s regional summit
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The Triad region of North Carolina sees the value of design to economic development. Here’s the region’s new professional development program, for designers and business people who want to understand how “design thinking” can help to improve products, services and business processes.
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The $5 million Medical Growth Fund gathers some of the region’s well-known health-care entrepreneurs who want to make seed-level investments in start-up companies that are close to profitability. It will focus on medical device, health IT, and health-care services businesses and provide an initial investment of up to $500,000. Each [...]
Board of the World Wind Energy Association awarded the World Wind Energy Award 2009 to the Hon. George Smitherman, Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of Ontario. The award recognizes Ontario’s leadership in wind power.
He’d probably make a pretty good City [...]
I’m sitting in Columbus participating in a very interesting forum on how to integrate federal resources to support auto communities in Ohio. One of the bigger challenges comes in injecting more flexibility into federal programs.
Interesting points: workforce system is doing more incumbent worker training and more [...]
Valdis Krebs and I finished a brief discussion of how NorTech could use its directory of advanced energy companies to create an opportunity map of potential connections to strengthen clusters within this sector.
It’s the first of a series of chats we’ll be doing on regional economic development.
Over on one of my other blogs, edmorrison.com, I share some of the insights that we are developing as we work with a new network-based approach to community revitalization. Pioneered by Community Renewal International, this model focuses on strengthening the networks within a neighborhood.
The strategy includes a variety [...]
Earlier this week, I had lunch with a friend of mine who spends time inside the bubble of Cleveland’s leadership. Our conversation moved around to the question of whether or not Cleveland’s leadership would eventually embrace new models of economic development, based on open networks.
My friend [...]
NorTech has announced the release of the new advanced energy directory. This database includes listings for a 350 companies. The challenge, of course, is to move from a static directory to an overlapping set of dynamic networks. Increasingly, innovation takes place through collaboration in these open networks.
What is [...]
Lean, mean, productive
August 16, 2009 at 11:46 am by Larry Rulison
Jack Donaghy, the General Electric Co. exec played by Alec Baldwin in the NBC sitcom “30 Rock” isn’t the only one talking about Six Sigma or lean manufacturing these days.
The Center for Economic Growth, the Albany-based economic development organization that [...]
Last evening, in Duluth, I took a walk along the lake front and encountered the ocean vessel, Lianmare, moving through the ship channel on her way to pick up a load of grain.
Lianmare arrives in Duluth from Ed Morrison on Vimeo.
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Connecting education with the needs of business is a tricky problem. Educators typically do not have much exposure to private sector companies and their rapidly evolving needs. At the same time, business managers are remarkably inarticulate when it comes to specifying their skill needss.
We have an [...]
Last month, the UK released its The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan.
The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan plots out how the UK will meet the cut in emissions set out in the budget of 34% on 1990 levels by 2020. A 21% reduction has already been delivered [...]
Ohio has improved its national ranking as one America’s top states for business, ranking 29th overall, in the yearly survey conducted by CNBC. The 2009 rank is an improvement over its 30th place ranking in 2008 (tie with Illinois), a result of Ohio’s purposeful redesign of its business climate that [...]
“We are collaborative, we’re organized and we are committed to the entire Mahoning Valley and not just to our individual communities,” said Tony Paglia, the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber’s vice president of government affairs.
Nine communities in Mahoning and Trumbull counties will collaborate with Youngstown State University’s Center for Urban and Regional [...]
Developer David Sadd:
“Citizen participation is automatic everywhere else in the country. We’re surprised we didn’t see that in this Cuyahoga process.”
Jay Ross, the county’s director of central services:
“We need to sit behind closed doors and make decisions to benefit taxpayers.”
(Like buying a $40 million building, useless to the County? [...]
Here are some lessons I have learned about Chinese corruption from our small water project:
The corruption requires a marriage between a criminal gang (to intimidate) and a network of corrupt local officials (to manipulate a weak legal system) — The criminal gang, by itself, only intimidates. It’s [...]This week in Xi’an, I am receiving a graduate education in Chinese corruption networks. I understand more fully how they form, how they operate, and why they are so difficult to eliminate.
In the United States, we have federal prosecutors who represent “the people” with the right to examine the [...]
With today’s trade, it looks like a lot of people are resigning as an Indians fans. This trade of yet another high profile player makes the Indians business model even murkier.
If anyone has a theory on what the Dolans are doing, I’d like to see it. (Meanwhile, [...]
Today, I got a sense of the power of the Internet. Yesterday, I was out in Lantian at our factory and at a local police station. I took video of the police, as they scattered in my presence. (I have a short sequence of one guy who makes a 180 [...]
Over the weekend, I flew to Xi’an, PRC to deal with a problem of corruption. For the past ten years or so, I have been a part of a team of entrepreneurs trying to bring clean mineral water to the people of Xi’an.
We have a small [...]
Just enjoyed lunch with Jack Ricchiuto. As usual, our conversation for me was wide-ranging and engaging. One of the topics we explored is the emerging importance of story-telling to communities. Rather than a vision — which ends to be deeply personal — stories are shared. They create [...]
From Jim Cossler at the Youngstown Business Incubator:
The cover of this August’s Entrepreneur magazine boldly promotes the feature story “The 10 Best Cities to Start a Business” along with the first answer:
(Youngstown, Ohio, anyone?)
Yep, making the grade this year are Las Vegas, Portland, Orlando, San Diego, Phoenix, Chapel Hill, Atlanta, [...]
The evidence is accumulating that Cleveland’s economic development strategy does not work very well.
(Here, we are talking about the 5 county Cleveland metro region: Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, Medina and Lorain counties: population about 2.1 million.)
Last week, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce released its own strategy assessment [...]
Chicago-based urban affairs analyst Aaron Renn riffs on why real estate interests have come to dominate so many cities, including Cleveland.
The change has led to a confusion between economic development and real estate development.
Not only has the drying up of local and regional operating businesses led to a business [...]
For the past hour or so, I’ve been fooling around with a new graphing program for the MAC, OmniGraphSketcher. Very cool.
After watching the last couple of innings of the Detroit 10-1 blow out of the Indians, I thought I’d test it out on some [...]
Jimmy Dimora tries to muddy the water:
Other politicians like Cimperman, seem pained by the dilemma:
Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman said that he can’t speak for other public officials but [...]
The Washington Post carries a good article on The Pittsburgh Promise.
Pittsburgh scholarships saving schools, students
Take a moment to learn more about the Pittsburgh Promise and the Kalamazoo Promise.
As the Cleveland Fed has pointed out, two key factors drive to economic development: educational attainment and [...]
Yesterday, Commissioners Jones and Hagan symbolically voted their colleague, Jimmy Dimora, off the island. With this single act, they are hoping to distance themselves from the culture of corruption that pervades Cuyahoga County.
It’s not so easy.
Corruption represents the misuse of public power for private profit. It flourishes with too [...]
After months of delay, an ambitious anti-violence program with a track record of dramatic success in several U.S. cities is getting under way in Pittsburgh….
The program is based on the work of David Kennedy, a professor in the anthropology department at New York City’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. [...]
The NYT this morning looks at the distribution of transportation funding across the country. The article mentions the Inner Belt bridge.
Cleveland was initially promised $200 million of Ohio’s stimulus money to help build a five-lane bridge to replace the 50-year-old Innerbelt Bridge, which is so deteriorated that officials banned [...]
For the last couple of weeks, a group of us (ably led by George Nemeth) have been working with Marc Canter to assist him with his move from Silicon Valley to Northeast Ohio. Here’s a good overview article that appeared in the Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s paper of record.
Most likely, [...]
Philadelphia estimates that the cost of a high school drop out is about $580,000. That’s the difference in net fiscal contribution over a working lifetime (tax revenue generated vs. tax revenues received) between a Philadelphia student who earns a diploma and one who does not.
The city has been responding with [...]
A very interesting and well-written article by PD’s science writer:
Random Posts Photographs for New Conversations: The Art of Jack Ricchiuto and Maurice Small WTF??? [...]Is anyone else noticing that the reporting in the PD is getting better? Is this connected to Brent Larkin leaving?
A couple of examples:
Former Lakewood Mayor Sinagra linked to Parma politico’s activities: Crisis In County Government Cuyahoga County Commissioner Tim Hagan complains about stories on secret meetings, then goes [...]The recent press conference by Jimmy Dimora underscores a confusion that is running through his mind.
Dimora brought forth no evidence that anyone is interfering with his legal rights as a prospective defendant. We can assume he was referring these rights when he spoke the rights “our forefathers fought for”.
At [...]
It’s hard not to make the contrast.
While Cleveland’s leadership struggles with a corruption probe, Pittsburgh prepares for the G-20 meeting this September.
When will Cleveland’s leadership imagine something more?
Pittsburgh firms fork over a half million dollars for G-20 summit
Addendum:
Philip Morris captures the sinking feeling:
I [...]
Cuyahoga Falls to join county economic development group
You can download the MOU here.
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Hangzhou: Worship
The Heartland Conference
Alternatives to the Med Con
links for 2009-03-14
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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
About ten days [...]
This Fall, Purdue and the Economic Development Institute at the University of Oklahoma are launching a certificate course in Open Source Economic Development.
The course will expose you to the latest thinking and toolsets for promoting open innovation in regional economies. To build prosperity in an economy [...]
Valdis Krebs outlines how social networks can help find the patterns underlying mortgage fraud. He worked with a citizen’s group in Slavic Village.
Finding the Flippers
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Toward more effective government in Cuyahoga County?
BFD [...]
Last week, we launched an experiment. Three federal agencies, deeply involved in assisting Michigan adjust to the collapse of the auto industry, sponsored a Strategic Doing workshop.
The objective: Could we find some practical collaborations among the different federal partners in Michigan? The answer, I think: “Yes, [...]
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Yesterday, I was in South Central Idaho, one of 39 WIRED regions around the country (Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development).
These regions are becoming “hot spots” to explore the next generation of workforce innovation: new approaches to integrating education, economic development and workforce development.
You can view [...]
Source: Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer
Earle Turner, Humble Public Servant:
“I work 24 hours a day.”
“I work this job every single day of the week.”
“This isn’t an attractive job.”
“I have never stopped working hard for the city of Cleveland.”
“I never stop working.”
“I [...]
The view from my hotel in Milwaukee this morning
Milwaukee and Cleveland have a lot in common. It’s surprising to me that the collaboration between these two cities is not stronger. Milwaukee has some interesting regional initiatives underway.
Chris Thompson, a Milwaukee native now working for the [...]
Looks like the wireless at CLE working better than in the past.
To Whom It May Concern: Thank you.
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links for 2009-02-17
The Next NEO: Schools as community centers
Walk your Neighborhood. Take pictures
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New Milken report: North America’s High-Tech Economy: The Geography of Knowledge-Based Industries
Download page.
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Kayaking Lake Erie
The Next NEO: Early stage investing
links for 2009-04-15
links for 2009-01-27
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Our cheapest energy source is the energy we do not use.
Random Posts A Citizen Dashboard for Cuyahoga County A Letter to Indians Fans: TRANSLATED [...]Like NEO, Massachusetts is facing the challenge of creating a public sector that is more lean.
Regionalization eyed to stem budget bleeding
Can the Fund’s work here generate legislative policy options?
Random Posts Economic Development Links links for 2009-04-15 Holly [...]The University of Akron and Lorain County Community College are looking to strengthen their partnership, the Innovation Alliance.
To make it official, Dr. Luis M. Proenza, president of The University of Akron, and Dr. Roy Church, president of Lorain County Community College, signed the shared services agreement last month.
They have invited [...]
Christian Science Monitor reports from Youngstown. My brother, Hunter, expresses the challenge we now face across the Great Lakes. How do we creatively shrink cities?
When the steel mills closed more than 30 years ago, Youngstown was left without much of the stable, middle-class base that kept the city humming. Thousands [...]
Strategy Session 2009 | Presentations by:
Chris Ronayne, University Circle Inc. Terry Schwarz, Cleveland State Urban Design Collaborative/Shrinking Cities InstituteMore here.
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Creatively shrinking Youngstown
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