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Tangential Innovation Communities

by Dan Robles

Technology clusters serve what we call the tangential innovation market – or diversity innovation dynamics. Don’t worry if you have not heard of these things, I’m making this up as I go along.

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Cluster Funk

by Dan Robles

The term “Innovation Clusters” makes for a good soundbite for politicians because it fits on a banner they can stand in front of (thumbs up) and waving the “I’m for Jobs” banner for the next election cycle. It keeps funds flowing to organizations to publish studies that conclude that more studies are needed. Maybe these “summits” ought to be renamed, Cluster Funks because that is all that they actually promote.

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Group Buying vs. Social Buying

by Dan Robles

Suppose the group buying experience could aggregate packages of products. Strategic products would then be aggregated as “A Network of Products” that together increase net value. Yes, you heard me…a ‘combination of products’ with Twitter followers.

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Video: America; A Next Developed Country

by Dan Robles

Now that the factories are gone and the rest of the World has copied all of our tricks (while not copying our mistakes) it is time to move on. What is that next watershed economic paradigm? Who is going to figure this one out? The ones who do will define the new meaning of “A Most Developed Country”

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Options, Options, What Are My Options?

by Dan Robles

This article continues a discussion of a valuation technique for social media

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Social Enterprise; Innovation Clusters

by Dan Robles

Innovation clusters are all the rage in regional economic development circles.  Actually, they are “industrial clusters” because several companies in similar industries collocate in the same geographical area.  The industrial cluster then attracts supporting industry and often causes the migration of educated and motivated people to the prospect of jobs.  I suspect the ‘innovation’ moniker [...]

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The Ingenesist Project

by Dan Robles

The Ingenesist Project; Putting an End to Debt Economics

The U.S. National Debt is over 10 trillion dollars. Assuming deficit spending stops today, every man, woman, and child in the US is responsible for $33,500.00.
This means that $33,500.00 of every person’s productivity has already been spent. Obviously, the only way to pay the debt is to [...]

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INGENESIST PROJECT: Submission to the 10^100

by Dan Robles

INGENESIST PROJECT: Submission to the 10^100 Innovation Contest; www.project10tothe100.com
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The Ingenesist Project is an open source economic development program to induce the Innovation Economy utilizing Social Networks.
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The current financial system has reached the limits of its effectiveness. Interest on debt has exceeded the system’s ability to pay it off. But debt [...]

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Economics of Innovation

by Dan Robles

Every time humans invent better ways of doing things, the economy gets a little bigger. This is a simple idea. The cave dwellers discovered that they did not have to travel as much hunting and gathering if they could sharpen a rock enough to chop a tree down for firewood or for spearing animals.  That [...]

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