Open Source Economic Development: 9

1. An Introduction to Open Source Economic Development
2. Changes in our economy hit home
3. Moving from a First Curve to a Second Curve economy
4. The Urgency of Open Innovation
5. New, Networked Approaches to Economic Development
6. Building an open civic process: Strategic doing
7. The emerging role of the civic leader
8. The importance of mapping our networks
9. Mapping and aligning Second Curve networks

10. Open Source Economic Development and Web 2.0

11. Open Source Economic Development: A Glossary

Mapping and aligning Second Curve networks

We still need some guidance as to which type of networks to build. Open Source Economic Development represents economic development practices geared to the Second Curve. This approach represents a set of tools and practices for guiding the process of building open innovation systems. This model views local and regional economies as networks embedded in other networks. This approach captures the different dimensions of economic development and illustrates how they work together.

Successful regions operate with focused networks in strategic areas: brainpower, innovation and entrepreneurship, quality, connected places, branding and civic dialogue. The theory of change embedded in Open Source Economic Development is clear and concise:

To be globally competitive, any region needs to cultivate high quality brainpower. Next, the region needs to be able to convert this brainpower into wealth through innovation and entrepreneurship networks (“clusters”). The region needs to be able to retain and attract talent by building quality, connected places. The region needs to tell its story through effective branding. Most important, the region needs to cultivate civic habits of collaboration through an organized, disciplined process of “strategic doing”.

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