Where do you find people engaging their environment, building collaborations, and generating ideas to create the next-best-thing? A place for entrepreneurs, experts, and curious explorers to meet, work, and do sounds like something every community needs. We thought so, and we are working to make one.
Greenway Partners (Arcata) announced that it has won the American Planning Association’s (APA) 2012 Grassroots Initiative Award of Merit for the California Northern Section for its report, “Developing the Seedbed for Arcata’s Emerging Entrepreneurs.” The APA California Northern Section is the largest in the State of California, with over 1,900 members from the Monterey coastline to the northern border.
(Originally printed in the Eureka Times-Standard)
Management guru Peter Drucker noted that the purpose of business is simple: to create a customer. For Drucker this is achieved through: 1) innovation, and, 2) marketing—or telling your business’s story.
“Innovation” basically means “to renew or change.” We often think of innovation as a thing: such as a new invention that makes our lives easier. But an innovation can also be
In remarks he offered at the Economic Fuel 2012 Awards Ceremony on April 27, 2012, Greenway Principal David Narum noted that “Right now, the future is an idea. And as someone once said, ‘The best way to predict the future is to invent it.’”
The fact is that a lot of people have ideas, but not everyone does something with them. Each one of the Economic Fuel award winners chose to make the entrepreneurial leap to go beyond daydreaming, beyond sitting on a couch saying “someone should do something about that, or someone should come up with a product that . . . .”
Greenway’s Kirk Cohune and David Narum interview Dr. Bill Trush and Friends of the Eel River’s Scott Greacen about the Eel River Symposium, held April 14, 2012 at the River Lodge in Fortuna, CA.
After reading the previous posts in this series, what issues have risen to the surface for you? Do you feel there is a need for a more enhanced town and gown relationship in our region? Or are you still left wondering what all the buzz is about?
In the last four posts, we introduced the concept of town and gown, reflected on ways to integrate students with constructive, real-world learning opportunities and practical business opportunities, and made a call for a revolution in learning that encompasses the latest knowledge on the brain and education.
What’s left? It’s a big subject, with lots of perspectives. We offer just a few suggestions for ways forward from here.
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