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Foursquare Economics

by Dan Robles

The Next Economic Paradigm is arriving and the first entries include Foursquare. Few people understand the significance of this new class of social media applications. Foursquare contains many (but not yet all) of the components of the Innovation Economy that we have been discussing for several years at Ingenesist.com, Conversationalcurreny.com, and Relationship-economics.com.

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1.3 Trillion Dollar Professional Contact Market

by Dan Robles

It is only a matter of time until professional contacts will be for sale. The problem is that the ROI (return on investment model) is such a poor valuation tool for social media.

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Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

by Dan Robles

The human resources department is responsible for matching a knowledge surplus to a knowledge deficit through the hiring process. Fortunately for them, there is no knowledge inventory in society and managers don’t necessarily know what they want.

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The New Economic Paradigm: Part 7; Monetization of Knowledge Assets

by Dan Robles

We have specified a structure for a new economic paradigm by simply integrating the the knowledge economy into the same structure as the financial system. The result is a completely new way for entrepreneurs to create wealth.

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The New Economic Paradigm; Part 6: The Business Plan

by Dan Robles

The business plan of the innovation economy is very simple; it starts with the single transaction between two people. The lender provides information and the borrower combines the information with their existing knowledge to create more knowledge.

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The Global Financial Crisis; The End Game

by Dan Robles

Likely the most optimistic projection of the future. This article predicts that social media will become the platform for an Innovation Economy.

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Prejudice and the Relationship Economy

by Dan Robles

As the vortex of computer enabled society develops, new social media applications will soon touch the ground in a tornado of Social Capitalism. I reflect on the hidden social codes of on-line vs. off-line society.

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2008 Financial Crisis: The End Game

by Dan Robles

The year is 2020, no burning cities, no mass hysteria, no bread lines; the economy is on an exponential growth curve.  The financial crisis of 2008 ended in an anticlimactic sort of way.  Sure, lots of hedge fund bankers were unemployed for a while and many companies once deemed titans of industry have disappeared, but [...]

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Social Enterprise; Rating Systems

by Dan Robles

There is an ongoing discussion about the rating system for articles posted to a business oriented social network site that I belong to.  While am not part of the discussion, my one and only post to that site had been rated very low despite the fact that I am recognized internationally in the subject matter [...]

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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 – press release

by Dan Robles

We have launched The Ingenesist Project. The Innovation Economy is an absolutely huge and necessary step forward for all of us. The current financial system is unstable and it will fail. At best, the innovation economy can increase human productivity sufficiently to support the debt load. At worst, there needs to be [...]

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