financial

Social Enterprise; Show Me The Money

October 27, 2008

The term social capital is thrown around with great ease without really understanding what the word “capital” implies.   Capital is money used to earn more money; that means that social capital must somehow be related to, or derived from money.  There is no shortage of blog posts asking the timeless question “Where’s the money in [...]

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A Few Predictions for the Innovation Economy

September 18, 2008

Social Network will become the corporate structure of the future. They will spit out start-ups at an astonishing rate. The “resume system” will be banished forever possibly earning the title of the cruelest human invention since the lobotomy. The University System will be challenged – the relevance of the college degree will be questioned in [...]

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The Capitalization of Knowledge – Innovation Bonds

September 18, 2008

With a computer readable knowledge inventory, local communities of practice, a percentile search engine algorithm, and the virtuous circle of finance, then future innovation cash flows can be predicted much more accurately and with far lower risk than with, say, the venture capitalists acting alone. Were risk is predictable, cash flows are predictable and the [...]

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The Capitalization of Knowledge – The Virtuous Circle

September 18, 2008

We have set up a new game for entrepreneurs to play called Innovation Economics. We have defined a currency and an inventory where knowledge is visible outside the construct of the corporation – and resident in social networks. We have also described a way for entrepreneurs to visualize the knowledge asset and the supply and [...]

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The Credit Score Analogy; Part 2

September 17, 2008

Now we look for a similar situation for Knowledge Markets. In the cuurent times, the hiring manager is the person to know if you want to get a job. The manager would read your resume and compare it with “bell curve” in their brain about what has worked or not worked in their past. This [...]

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The Credit Score Analogy; Part 1

September 17, 2008

We have defined the currency, the factors of production, and the inventory of the Innovation Economy; we destroyed the old resume system and turned it into a computer language that makes knowledge appear like money in the eyes of the entrepreneur. Now, we need a system that keeps the game free and fair. For example; [...]

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