Universities as Anchors to Regional Innovation

ED MORRISONOCTOBER, 2013

UNIVERSITIES AS ANCHORSFOR REGIONAL INNOVATIONED MORRISONPURDUE UNIVERSITYUEDA 2013

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From closed to open...

We can replicate and scale....

A new path...

Locations of Purdue Strategic Doing

Workshops

Thinking Differently Behaving DifferentlyDoing Differently

Thinking Differently Behaving DifferentlyDoing Differently

Explain the real dynamics

Get good at “link and leverage”

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Open Innovation

Productivity

Prosperity

Core Team guides development of a strategic agenda

Higher educational institution supporting the cluster with education, training and research

Connect networks to innovation

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Introduce the ecosystemStart-up firms

Venture investor and angel networks

Colleges and universities

Skilled talent pool

Innovating Stage 2

Companies

Provides ideas, incubators

and smart people

Provides capitaland expertise

Recruits smart people

Recruits and trains smart people

Provides networkand mentoring to

start-ups

Provides R&D partners

Recruits and supplies

smart people

Provides investment

and generates wealth

Provides training support to clusters

Acceleratesnew venture investment

Source: Ed Morrison, Purdue Center for Regional Development. Distributed with Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license

Thinking Differently Behaving DifferentlyDoing Differently

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Create new civic spaces

Connect civility to innovation

Thinking Differently Behaving DifferentlyDoing Differently

Teach agile strategy

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Use a simple strategy mapBrainpower Innovation

EntrepreneurshipNetworks

New Narratives

Quality, Connected

Places

CollaborationStrategic Doing

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Visualize complex systemsBrainpower Innovation

EntrepreneurshipNetworks

New Narratives

Quality, Connected

Places

CollaborationStrategic Doing

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

John Quincy Adams

Promote new (old) ideas

Thank youED Morrisonedmorrison@purdue.edu