National

I-Open is establishing a National Community of Practice in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Lab, the Department of Labor, the Clean Energy Alliance (a national network of incubators in clean energy), Near-Time.net, the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (based in Research Triangle), and 10 WIRED regions across the country(acronym for Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development, 3 year $15M initiatives funded through the Dept. of Labor).

Regions

Interview: WCPN The Sound of Ideas: Reflections on Regionalism in Northeast Ohio, Ed Morrison

Community

Networks: Midtown Brews, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008: Product Development Opportunities in Solar Power, Bill MacDermott

Research: David Moore, VP, Collaborative Communications Group, first introduced us to Map of Future Forces Affecting Education published by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute for the Future, at the Defrag Lorain conference last April. This valuable tool demonstrates the power of visualization to realize complex forces affecting the future of education. Download.

Enterprise: WebKnowHow.Net News I-Open Selects Near-Time Web Platform to Accelerate Economic Development Communities Across the U.S.

Education: The first Certificate Course in Open Source Economic Development will be offered in the Spring of 2008 in collaboration with the Purdue Center for Regional Development, Purdue University and the Economic Development Institute, Oklahoma State University. Ed Morrison, Policy Analyst, at the Center for Regional Development, Purdue University will be instructing. If you are interested in enrolling please e-mail efmorris@purude.edu.

Testimonial

"The I-Open program provides relevant tools for developing and enhancing civic leadership-- using elegantly designed processes and methods." - Dino Signore, Manager of Programs, The Edward Lowe Foundation

The I-Open Team

Ed Morrison, Susan Altshuler, Betsey Merkel, and Dennis Coughlin

The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) is a not for profit organization serving economic development practitioners and professionals. I-Open develops and deploys process, tools and practices for Open Source Economic Development, a method to build open innovation networks to accelerate exponential growth in communities and regions.

Mailing address: The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) - Cleveland Midtown Innovation Center - 4415 Euclid Ave., 2nd Fl. - Cleveland, OH 44103 USA - E-mail: info@i-open.org - Website: http://www.i-open.org