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I have just realized REI - the Weatherhead School of Management Center for Regional Economic Issues - has totally come alive in the past six month, and is taking a central position leading economic development research and practice in Northeast Ohio.
This development is fantastic for the community, as there is a need for the highest possible level of insight in this area, which must come from proactive intellectual investigation - and REI also is providing networking, collaboration and consulting among their academic and student participants and the entire entrepreneurial world - they seem very open!
I've always felt this is exactly what was needed in Northeast Ohio, and a role CASE should play. Being an exceptional university, it has much to offer the region. With the support of Progressive Insurance CEO Peter Lewis, they built Cleveland's most beautiful recent landmark building for their business school, which includes REI. So this is a first class outreach all the way around.
It is an important indication that CASE has worked through its transformation from a 20th century academic conglomeration to a 21st century economic engine for the community, which very much needs this type of leadership.
Read below how REI has brought key pieces together to take an important role in Northeast Ohio, and become active in their programs, from tuesdays@REI to collaboration - contact them with your ideas.
weatherhead.case.edu/rei/default.cfm
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Of interest:
REI hires new Executive Director
8/1/2003
After several months of interviews and many outstanding candidates, Weatherhead School of Management and Center for Regional Economic Issues search committee members have chosen Edward F. Morrison to head up REI.
Ed has over 18 years experience in the economic development industry. After managing tax and trade legislation for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, Ed went on to a distinguished career working on economic development primarily in the South. Of mention, Ed manages the Community Assessment Program for the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, is the architect of the strategic economic development plan for Oklahoma City (Forward Oklahoma City) and has served as economic development consultant to the Chamber since 2004, and has authored the 1998 report for the Commission on the Future of the South.
Ed holds a BA degree from Yale University and a MBA and JD degree from the University of Virginia.
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Weatherhead hires REI Academic Director and prof
8/1/2003
The Weatherhead School of Management has hired a new professor of economics and Academic Director for REI, Dr. Scott Shane. In conjunction with the hiring of Edward Morrison as REI’s new Executive Director, Dr. Shane will help fill the vacancy left when REI Director and Weatherhead professor Richard A. Shatten passed away February 2002. Dr. Shane comes to Weatherhead and to REI from previous appointments at the University of Maryland, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Shane has also consulted to numerous large and small organizations, and has taught in executive education programs in Norway, Poland, New Zealand and the United States.
Dr. Shane’s primary interests are in technology transfer, franchising, and entrepreneurship having authored over 50 scholarly articles on entrepreneurship and innovation.
Scott Shane holds an AB from Brown University *(’86), a MS from Georgetown University (’88), and a PhD. from the University of Pennsylvania (’92).
URL: weatherhead.case.edu/wsom/pr...anes.htm
Scott Shane
Professor of Economics
Telephone: 216/368-5538
Year of hire: 2003
Email: Scott Shane@case.edu
Research Interests:
Technology entrepreneurship
Firm formation process
Business format franchising
The role of entrepreneurship in economic development
University technology transfer and commercialization
Teaching Interests:
Entrepreneurship
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One initiative REI has implemented is meetings every Tuesday at 4 PM to discuss economic development issues, like Sustainability and Network Capitalism. See info on this at www.smartmeetingdesign.com/rei/...sdays
Tuesdays@REI
The Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) hosts weekly forums called Tuesdays@REI. These public discussions are part of “Making Change”, a regional initiative coordinated by REI@Weatherhead, which is helping to build a new level of civic engagement for our Innovation Economy in Northeast Ohio. For our public calendar, follow the link below.
Related website: public calendar
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Here's an article from Crain's Tech that provides much more information about what is developing with REI - very exciting!
Making change at REI
9:39 AM Nov. 13, 2003
By CHRIS THOMPSON
neohio.craintech.com/cgi-bin/article.pl
Ed Morrison is ready to get things done, not do more studies.
The new executive director of REI@Weatherhead wants to transform the research organization into one of the architects of the "innovation economy of Northeast Ohio."
Northeast Ohio will get a better idea of how that will be done at a lunchtime program on Nov. 20 where Mr. Morrison, Weatherhead School of Management Dean Mohsen Anvari and Case Western Reserve University President Edward Hundert will speak. Online registration and more details of the REI program are available here.
REI is best known for developing numerous reports and studies that evaluate the performance of the region's economy. The depth and number of the studies done by REI's own researchers and the faculty of Weatherhead have prompted some to say Northeast Ohio is the most studied regional economy in the country.
REI will continue to conduct research, but the research won't be the end product.
"We're here to design and build stuff," Mr. Morrison vowed.
Mr. Morrison spent seven years working on economic development issues in Oklahoma City before returning to his native home earlier this year to run REI. He has quickly moved to engage REI, more formally known as the Center for Regional Economic Issues, in conversations about transforming and growing the region's economy.
"We are in an age of network capitalism," he said. "The whole value is in the network." One of REI's goals will be to connect existing networks of entrepreneurs, researchers, civic leaders and corporate executives.
"The future of Cleveland is in the intersections" of those networks, he said.
REI has adopted the theme "Making Change" for its efforts - it's a title developed by his predecessor, the late Richard Shatten. It has primarily been used for a series of news reports on the evolving area economy done on local public radio and television.
Mr. Morrison plans to expand on those efforts by developing web sites, blogs and a series of meetings to discuss various issues - ranging from wireless technologies to sustainable development - that influence the region's economy. The Nov. 20 program is entitled: Making Change: Networks for our Innovation Economy. A follow-up meeting is already scheduled for May 17 that will assess the progress being made by REI.
Also, REI is hosting weekly community meetings at its Weatherhead offices on Tuesday afternoons from 4 to 6 p.m. The public is invited to attend and engage in the discussions.
"We want to know what people are thinking," Mr. Morrison said.
This development is fantastic for the community, as there is a need for the highest possible level of insight in this area, which must come from proactive intellectual investigation - and REI also is providing networking, collaboration and consulting among their academic and student participants and the entire entrepreneurial world - they seem very open!
I've always felt this is exactly what was needed in Northeast Ohio, and a role CASE should play. Being an exceptional university, it has much to offer the region. With the support of Progressive Insurance CEO Peter Lewis, they built Cleveland's most beautiful recent landmark building for their business school, which includes REI. So this is a first class outreach all the way around.
It is an important indication that CASE has worked through its transformation from a 20th century academic conglomeration to a 21st century economic engine for the community, which very much needs this type of leadership.
Read below how REI has brought key pieces together to take an important role in Northeast Ohio, and become active in their programs, from tuesdays@REI to collaboration - contact them with your ideas.
weatherhead.case.edu/rei/default.cfm
---------------------
Of interest:
REI hires new Executive Director
8/1/2003
After several months of interviews and many outstanding candidates, Weatherhead School of Management and Center for Regional Economic Issues search committee members have chosen Edward F. Morrison to head up REI.
Ed has over 18 years experience in the economic development industry. After managing tax and trade legislation for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, Ed went on to a distinguished career working on economic development primarily in the South. Of mention, Ed manages the Community Assessment Program for the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, is the architect of the strategic economic development plan for Oklahoma City (Forward Oklahoma City) and has served as economic development consultant to the Chamber since 2004, and has authored the 1998 report for the Commission on the Future of the South.
Ed holds a BA degree from Yale University and a MBA and JD degree from the University of Virginia.
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Weatherhead hires REI Academic Director and prof
8/1/2003
The Weatherhead School of Management has hired a new professor of economics and Academic Director for REI, Dr. Scott Shane. In conjunction with the hiring of Edward Morrison as REI’s new Executive Director, Dr. Shane will help fill the vacancy left when REI Director and Weatherhead professor Richard A. Shatten passed away February 2002. Dr. Shane comes to Weatherhead and to REI from previous appointments at the University of Maryland, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Shane has also consulted to numerous large and small organizations, and has taught in executive education programs in Norway, Poland, New Zealand and the United States.
Dr. Shane’s primary interests are in technology transfer, franchising, and entrepreneurship having authored over 50 scholarly articles on entrepreneurship and innovation.
Scott Shane holds an AB from Brown University *(’86), a MS from Georgetown University (’88), and a PhD. from the University of Pennsylvania (’92).
URL: weatherhead.case.edu/wsom/pr...anes.htm
Scott Shane
Professor of Economics
Telephone: 216/368-5538
Year of hire: 2003
Email: Scott Shane@case.edu
Research Interests:
Technology entrepreneurship
Firm formation process
Business format franchising
The role of entrepreneurship in economic development
University technology transfer and commercialization
Teaching Interests:
Entrepreneurship
------------
One initiative REI has implemented is meetings every Tuesday at 4 PM to discuss economic development issues, like Sustainability and Network Capitalism. See info on this at www.smartmeetingdesign.com/rei/...sdays
Tuesdays@REI
The Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) hosts weekly forums called Tuesdays@REI. These public discussions are part of “Making Change”, a regional initiative coordinated by REI@Weatherhead, which is helping to build a new level of civic engagement for our Innovation Economy in Northeast Ohio. For our public calendar, follow the link below.
Related website: public calendar
----------------------------------------------
Here's an article from Crain's Tech that provides much more information about what is developing with REI - very exciting!
Making change at REI
9:39 AM Nov. 13, 2003
By CHRIS THOMPSON
neohio.craintech.com/cgi-bin/article.pl
Ed Morrison is ready to get things done, not do more studies.
The new executive director of REI@Weatherhead wants to transform the research organization into one of the architects of the "innovation economy of Northeast Ohio."
Northeast Ohio will get a better idea of how that will be done at a lunchtime program on Nov. 20 where Mr. Morrison, Weatherhead School of Management Dean Mohsen Anvari and Case Western Reserve University President Edward Hundert will speak. Online registration and more details of the REI program are available here.
REI is best known for developing numerous reports and studies that evaluate the performance of the region's economy. The depth and number of the studies done by REI's own researchers and the faculty of Weatherhead have prompted some to say Northeast Ohio is the most studied regional economy in the country.
REI will continue to conduct research, but the research won't be the end product.
"We're here to design and build stuff," Mr. Morrison vowed.
Mr. Morrison spent seven years working on economic development issues in Oklahoma City before returning to his native home earlier this year to run REI. He has quickly moved to engage REI, more formally known as the Center for Regional Economic Issues, in conversations about transforming and growing the region's economy.
"We are in an age of network capitalism," he said. "The whole value is in the network." One of REI's goals will be to connect existing networks of entrepreneurs, researchers, civic leaders and corporate executives.
"The future of Cleveland is in the intersections" of those networks, he said.
REI has adopted the theme "Making Change" for its efforts - it's a title developed by his predecessor, the late Richard Shatten. It has primarily been used for a series of news reports on the evolving area economy done on local public radio and television.
Mr. Morrison plans to expand on those efforts by developing web sites, blogs and a series of meetings to discuss various issues - ranging from wireless technologies to sustainable development - that influence the region's economy. The Nov. 20 program is entitled: Making Change: Networks for our Innovation Economy. A follow-up meeting is already scheduled for May 17 that will assess the progress being made by REI.
Also, REI is hosting weekly community meetings at its Weatherhead offices on Tuesday afternoons from 4 to 6 p.m. The public is invited to attend and engage in the discussions.
"We want to know what people are thinking," Mr. Morrison said.
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