Creative Molecular Economy

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Creative Molecular Economy 2009 Emergence of an
Organic Age COTF
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Our institutions, businesses included, have been
built for stability and not for change. Just as
in nature, rapid change in the environment
requires rapid adaptation to insure survival.
Building on insights developed both from the
world of information and the world of biology,
students of complexity theory are finding that
adaptation is a very general property of
connected systems. Whether biological or binary,
connected systems organize themselves to evolve
and adapt. It is our thesis that accelerated
change creates the imperative need to adapt, and
that if businesses and (communities) are going to
thrive in a volatile environment, they will do so
by applying lessons learned from biological
evolution. Christopher Myers and Stan
Davis Its Alive
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MegaTrends Creating a Perfect Storm

• Shift in Energy Sources Peak Oil
• Global Shifts in Finance, Demographics
  Environment
• Real Time Connectivism

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THREE ECONOMIES IN CHURN

• Last stages of an Industrial Economy
• Transition stage of a Knowledge Economy
• Emergence of a Creative Molecular Economy

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CREATIVE MOLECULAR ECONOMY

• Nanotechnology
• Biotechnology
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Continuous Innovation
• Weak Signals
• Interlocking Networks

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TYPES OF NETWORKS

• Transformative Capacity Building Networks
• Global Rural Network
• Chamber Executives Network

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RETHINKING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Three in One
• Shift to Economic Resiliency
• Creating an Open Culture Able to Adapt
• A Passion for Learning

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Resilience allows us, even in the most extreme
moments, to keep learning, to change. It is a
kind of battlefield courage, the ability to
innovate under fire because weve prepared in the
right way and because weve developed the
strength to keep moving even when were slapped
by the unexpected. But resilience has to be built
into our system in advance, like a strong immune
response before flu season. In practice this
means widening how we interact with the world
the better to learn new skills and make new
connections instead of narrowing to the fewest
possible essential threats or plans or
policies.   The Age of the Unthinkable
Joshua Cooper Ramo