Economy Transformers!

With our project partner Embassy of the Earth, we have designed a learn & work process of 1,5 years. Using social innovative tools like Theory U, Presencing, and open systems thinking models,  this process facilitates a few hundred dedicated and committed individuals - cross-sector and cross-interest - to work together to come up with values, models, ideas and practices for a new economy.

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Wubbo Ockels at TED Amsterdam on HIS IDEA...

The Danish Welfare Machine...

The Danish approach to being a top knowledge economy. How would this model, in YOUR opinion, look like for the Netherlands?

Josine Janssen from Facebook

Any best practices or examples from our international network maybe that we can borrow? Sweden, USA, Switzerland, Singapore and Denmark are in the top 5 for example. What's happening there?

Herman Jongejan

By keep on introducing significant WOW-projects."little birds find the food before bigger once can eat"

Ingrid de vries

i like your thinking.. the adding of the last 5 points. Regarding the first, let's go for a cradle to cradle Delta and maybe even incorporate Zeeland in there.

Wouter Kersten

Some thoughts:
* focus on traditional strengths (water, greenery etc) or new ones (nanotech, bio-economy, fin services, life sciences, embedded software, etc)
* specialise (see above) or more integral approach?... Lees verder
* isolated approach (geographically) or integrated. I mean the randstad is as big as London, so why not position it as such, but then for real
* USE the aspects that are mostly considered to be negative: open economy (immigration), cultural diversity, the 'silver economy' (ie ageing), etc....

Gabi Helfert

They need to open up more to international concepts, people, ideas. A lot of knowledge-intensive/ innovation work is still very much focused on Dutch collaborations, organizations and the like. The country in itself is too small to play a major role without international collaboration. I can't understand e.g. why a lot of conferences, events etc. ... See Morein the area of innovation are still predominantly held in Dutch - which excludes the majority of other Europeans or players beyond. Even regional networks should be more open to international players, since e.g. the big players in Rotterdam, the harbor etc. are international companies who employ a lot of brilliant international people - who just don't happen to be fluent in Dutch. Just a few examples: Idealize, SenterNovem, openinnovatie.nl, Innovatief Nederland,
Zorg Innovatie Forum, Centrum voor Innovatie Management (CIM) - all exclusively Dutch clubs, with Dutch websites, newsletters, meetings etc. Not very inviting for a large part of the 50% of people with non-Dutch roots living in the area...