Open Source Economic Development
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
- Current
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- Economic Policy Advisor at Purdue University
- Past
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- Director, Center for Regional Economic Issues at Case Western Reserve University
- Consultant at Morrison & Associates
- Staff Counsel, Senate Democratic Policy Committee at U.S. Senate
- Consultant at Telesis
- Staff counsel at Federal Trade Commission
- Legislative Assistant at U.S. House of Representatives
- Education
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- University of Virginia - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
- University of Virginia School of Law
- Yale University
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Ed Morrison’s Summary
For the past five or six years, I have been developing a new models for economic and workforce development, based on open networks. These approaches emphasize the strategic value of collaboration in today's global economy. I refer to these new models as Open Source Economic Development and Open Source Workforce Development.
Open Source software development methods successfully balance open participation and leadership guidance. With a few simple rules, open source evangelists are able to develop extremely complex projects quickly, by harnessing the collective wisdom and energies of an open community.
So, for example, we now need new approaches to thinking and acting strategically. Protocols of strategic planning are too slow and expensive. They were built for another time.
Strategic Doing, on the other hand, represents a new discipline, based on opportunity and resilience.
Borrowing the insights of software development, Open Source Economic Development promotes open innovation networks to accelerate regional innovation.
Ed Morrison’s Experience
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Economic Policy Advisor
Purdue University
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
Economic Policy Advisor to the Center for Regional Development at Purdue University.
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Director, Center for Regional Economic Issues
Case Western Reserve University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years)
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Consultant
Morrison & Associates
(Public Policy industry)
1984 — 2004 (20 years)
Strategy consulting firm for economic and workforce development
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Staff Counsel, Senate Democratic Policy Committee
U.S. Senate
(Government Agency; Legislative Office industry)
1983 — 1984 (1 year)
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Consultant
Telesis
(Management Consulting industry)
1981 — 1983 (2 years)
Corporate strategy consulting, an off-shoot of Boston Consulting Group
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Staff counsel
Federal Trade Commission
(Government Agency; Law Practice industry)
1979 — 1981 (2 years)
Office of Policy Planning
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Legislative Assistant
U.S. House of Representatives
(Government Agency; Legislative Office industry)
1972 — 1975 (3 years)
Office of U.S. Rep. Charles A. Vanik (D-Ohio)
Ed Morrison’s Education
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University of Virginia - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
MBA , 1975 — 1979
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University of Virginia School of Law
JD , 1975 — 1979
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Yale University
BA , African Studies , 1968 — 1972
