Posts Tagged ‘creative economy’

  • Are you ready to compete in the creative economy?
    Just do a quick comparison of the market value to the book value for public U.S. companies over the last two decades and you will see the dramatic upward rise in value attributed to intangibles – ideas, innovations. In this new world, wealth creation is dependent upon the capacity of a nation to continually create ideas.  In short, a nation without a vibrant creative...
    by philmckinney at February 8th, 2010 at 08:02 am
  • What is the role of government to encourage small business innovation?
    Since the beginning of time, it’s been entrepreneurs that drive the creation of innovation.  True breakthroughs have been the result of an individual or small team who had an idea and the determination to see it through to fruition.  In many cases, ignoring the advice of friends and the lack of what many would call standard market research/validation.   While...
    by philmckinney at January 4th, 2010 at 08:01 am
  • Slides From The Keynote At The Open Innovation Summit
    Below are the slides I used during my keynote this morning at the Open Innovation Summit in Orlando.  The topic was “How to Win In The Creative Economy” and touched on: The transtion we are experiencing from the knowledge economy to the creative economy The challenges of innovation (corporate anti-bodies, educational systems, etc) The way to unlock your...
    by philmckinney at December 3rd, 2009 at 03:12 pm
  • Podcast: Interview with Geoffrey Moore – Part 2 of 2
      As part of the continuing set of interviews with innovation thought leaders, this weeks podcast is part 2 of a 2 part interview with Geoffrey Moore. As with any interview, I came in with a set of planned topics that I thought were interesting.  Within the first 5 minutes, they were thrown out the window and we went “off script”.  Geoffrey’s thinking...
    by philmckinney at August 27th, 2009 at 01:08 am
  • Podcast: Creative Economy – Recorded LIVE!
    Recorded live April 4th 2008 at the Business Alliance Bootcamp for Growing Companies and Entrepreneurs … Change is something we may try to stop but never will.  From the agriculture economy to the manufacturing economy to the knowledge/information economy to that of the creative economy … where wealth creation is dependent upon the capacity of a nation...
    by philmckinney at April 20th, 2008 at 07:04 pm
  • Job Of The Future: Creativity Guru
    As we move from the information/knowledge economy to the creative economy, a new category of jobs will need to be created.  The new jobs will be critical to helping companies make the transition from the "old world" to the "new".  For those of us who watched the "geezers" (anyone over 65 years old) struggle with the emergence of...
    by philmckinney at February 25th, 2008 at 01:02 am
  • Creative Economy – How Should It Be Defined?
      There is a ongoing battle in the "creativity" community on how best to define the creative economy.  Why is this so important?  To prove that something exists, in this case an emerging economy, you must be able to measure it. There are two fundamental camps: The creative economy is defined by companies that participate in what are described...
    by philmckinney at November 7th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
  • For New Listeners – Recommended Starter List
     Over at the Facebook Group site for the podcast, one listener asked for recommendations for a new listener since the back catalog is so long (+40 hours of content).  So, I looked up the entire list and ranked the top 5 (1 being the most downloaded) podcasts based on number of listeners.  Here they are: 1 – KI_20050925 Overcoming your idea critics2...
    by philmckinney at May 13th, 2007 at 02:05 am
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    Podcast: India China And The Creative Economy
    Segment 1: India, China and the Creative Economy Developed coutries need to stop focusing on the offshoreing (right-shoring) of work.  Offshoring is an issue: Forrestor predicts that 3.3 million white collar jobs equalling $136 billion is wages will shift to low cost countries such as India, China and Russia by 2015 Wester Europe will loose 1.2 million white collar...
    by philmckinney at December 10th, 2006 at 04:12 pm
  • Podcast: 10 Infrastructure Requirements For The Creative Economy
      Segment 1: 10 Infrastructure Requirements For The Creative Economy Establish innovation friendly education system Establish a set of BOG’s (Bold Outrageous Goals) to focus research and investment Strengthen links between research and industry Encourage innovation transfer between research and industry Provide R&D tax (investment) incentive to encourage...
    by philmckinney at October 15th, 2006 at 09:10 pm