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Sustainability strategies for regional innovation

The Department of Labor has made major seed investments in 39 regions. For the regional transformations to continue, we will need to connect with more investment partners. This forum explores different aspects of sustainability for regional innovation. 


1 8 Sustainability is an admirable goal. However, the WIRED three year commitment may kick start the process, but in the end the community and the business community in particular needs to be the investors in the solutions for any particular region. They will have the direct benefit of more business and …

by Jim McShane 9/8/08
in topic: What are the elements of a sustainability strategy?

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Help with Asset Mapping and Technical Assistance

Asset mapping and technical assistance are among a handful of starting points for regional innovation. This forum focuses on what we have learned about asset mapping and technical assistance. 


3 5 I'm game. Our project is online atqsrt.org.

by Jasen Jones 8/24/08
in topic: New RIG space

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Gen 3 Discussion About Extension

Gen 3 WIRED regions seeking 1-year extensions.  Questions and Answers


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Sharing Innovative Curriculums

This forum explores how we can share the best practices for increasing skill-set development across regions. 


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The low income and the hard to serve populations: Some new thinking

This forum explores new ways to improve services to the hard to serve and low income populations.


1 3 I agree Ken with your differentiation between TANF recipients and exoffenders is ture in our region as well. So when assisting these two distrinct population of workers, we may need different strategies; however, in our experience, the private sector, or at least the small to midsized employer, wants a single …

by James Vander Hulst 5/12/08
in topic: Follow up from our initial lunch in Boston

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Building investor networks

One major challenge most regions face involve strengthening the networks of investors within their regions. What are some of the lessons we have learned? Gardner Carrick set us off in this direction with these questions: 

I?m interested in whether regions have incorporated investor forums or other capital formation events into…


1 1 Jon Obermeyer started us off in this direction with an earlier post, which I copy below. jobermeyer saidWe have been running a Capital Connects! investor breakfast since 2004. We tried doing it three times a year, but ran short of deal flow. So, now it's an annual event. Held …

by Ed Morrison 5/3/08
in topic: Stories of developing investor networks

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Communication Strategies for regional innovation

Strategies for increasing visibility around WIRED initiatives. How do we connect with people in other networks? How do we gather stories? How do we engage smart, young people to help us with Web 2.0 tools? This forum explores topics around story-telling and communications. 


1 1 Richard Mains gave us some insight into how California thought of developing a "success story system" for telling stories. Richard Mains wrote:My company, Mains Associates, teamed with the California Innovation Corridor (WIRED Project) in developing a public web site for the CIC at http://innovatecalifornia.net. A Success Stories system …

by Ed Morrison 5/3/08
in topic: Developing success stories

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New opportunities collaborate with our Public Workforce System

How to we take the insights of our activities to help our public workforce system become more flexible, agile, and responsive? How do we engage workforce investment boards? How can we move the WIBs to the center of regional talent strategies?


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