Category: Articles
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Need a Good Real Estate Investment? Follow an Artist
We were happy to find yet another validating article that reinforces one of the strategies we’ve championed via Create WV. BusinessWeek outlines why artists are a driving force in redevelopment: The reason is that artists are happy to move where real estate investors aren’t prepared to go—crime-ridden inner cities with trashed-out apartments, inside rat-infested buildings…
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Psst, Young Professionals…What’s on Your Mind?
Only three days left to help Generation West Virginia obtain 1,000+ responses to their economic demographic survey. The cutoff is Wednesday, October 1, 2008, so if you haven’t already submitted your feedback, please log onto: http://www.cesdonline.org/surveys/GenWV Your input is extremely valuable! Not only will the results of this survey be used to inform GWV’s programmatic…
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Is A Vision Shared Becoming a Vision Realized?
Many folks aren’t aware that Create WV is an initiative lead by the Creative Communities volunteer team of Vision Shared, a non-profit organization launched in 2001. Depending on who you ask, the Vision Shared effort has either been a hugely valuable forum for connecting the private and public sectors to solve difficult problems in West…
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Disrupting Class-Chapter 9-Giving Schools the Right Structure to Innovate
“School reformers have repeatedly tried to bash the system and confront it head-on. A major lesson from our studies of innovation is that disruptive innovation does not take root through a direct attack on the existing system. Instead, it must go around and underneath the system. This is how disruption drives affordability, accessibility, capability, and…
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Creative Communities Under Construction’ Across West Virginia
In preparation for the Create WV Conference, Oct. 20-22, we’re inviting bloggers across the state to highlight “Creative Communities Under Construction,” by demonstrating local examples of the “new economy” in West Virginia. Several bloggers helped jump-start the effort, and others will be added to this list as it expands: abetterwestvirginia.com Health Care Attorney Bob Coffield…
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Can the Innovation Economy Save WV…and the US?
BusinessWeek has an interesting article on the “innovation economy” and the hope that focusing on the next major wave of productivity and quality of life innovations can spur on our lackluster economy. Historically, technological change has been the biggest force for productivity growth in the U.S. The latest figures show that “multifactor productivity”—a category that…
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What Do We Want? What Do We Believe?
David and Alex Bennett are hidden treasures for West Virginia in the hills of Pocahontas County. Alex is internationally recognized as a leader in knowledge management and an agent for organizational change, was the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Integration with the role of Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) for the United States Department of…
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Disrupting Class-Chapter 8-Forging A Consensus For Change
Don’t forget, this book is based on a couple of decades worth of research on managing innovation successfully. Specifically, this is a book on how to manage innovation within public education successfully. In Public School Systems, there is little consensus on cause and effect (“which actions will lead to the desired result”) or what they…
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Policy Directors for Obama and McCain Discuss Their Approach to the Entrepreneurial Economy
A live webcast of “The Next President and the Entrepreneurial Economy,” a panel discussion featuring Jason Furman, the Director of Economy Policy for Barack Obama, and Doug Holtz-Eakin, Director of Economic Policy for John McCain, will take place Friday, September 19 from 4:45 to 6:00 pm EDT. The event will be moderated by Kauffman Foundation…
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Create WV Conference – Quality of Place Track Sessions
Jeffrey Miller, organizing leader for “Quality of Place” sessions at the 2008 Create WV conference, has announced the line up for this year’s exciting track: Tuesday, October 21 Wednesday, October 22 “The ‘place’ track was one of the highest rated at last year’s conference,” said Miller. “We are very excited about this year’s lineup, which…