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Biography of Ed Morrison
Economic Policy Advisor
Center for Regional Development
Purdue University
Ed Morrison focuses on the integration of workforce development and economic development. To facilitate this integration, he has developed new approaches to economic and workforce development that emphasizes the importance of developing talent, open networks of collaboration. and new disciplines of "strategic doing".
This new approach emphasizes that both workforce development and economic development take place in a "civic space" outside the four walls of any one organization. Within this civic space, we need to develop new habits and disciplines of collaboration, a practice Ed calls "strategic doing".
The practice of strategic doing has important implications for the workforce system in that the habits also facilitate collaboration across boundaries within the workforce system.
Ed is economic policy advisor to the Purdue Center for Regional Development and the founder of I-Open, a non-profit corporation that promotes the practices of open innovation in economic development and workforce development. I-Open is a spin-out from Case Western Reserve University.
Ed is on the board of the University Economic Development Association. He teaches advanced strategy with the Economic Development Institute at the University of Oklahoma. He also serves on the Regional Experts Committee of the Council on Competitiveness. He is also author of a popular weblog for economic development professionals, EDPro at http://edpro-weblog.net
Ed has promoted the development of on-line innovation communities spinning out of the WIRED initiative. You can visit these communities at http://wired-nation.net and http://bioscienceregions.net
He has been an economic development consultant for over 20 years. He teaches strategic planning at the Economic Development Institute and is a member of the Regional Experts Committee for the Council on Competitiveness. He has J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Virginia and a B.A. degree from Yale University.
