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John M. Eger
Van Deerlin Chair of Communication and Public Policy
Executive Director, International Center for Communications
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
San Diego State University
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Dear John:
(1) Many thanks for your another interesting essays (ATTACHMENT I).
Dear
E-Colleagues:
His last one was;
(08/04/06) John Eger's two essays on creativity in China and America
http://tinyurl.com/kzc2v
Dear E-Colleagues:
(2) Pls enjoy reading it.
(3) Attached to this msg is the following pdf files;
(a) 3Bs
of having ÒaHaÓ!!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q55D2269D
Archimedes have discovered the principles of density and buoyancy, also known as Archimedes'
principle, while taking a bath. The story
goes that he then took to the streets naked, being so elated with his discovery
that he forgot to dress, crying "Eureka!" ("I have found it!").
When I find the economic principle
based on intangible commodity, such as Òcreativity,Ó I may do the same running around the streets in Manhattan!! My big joke?!
I once joked William Vickrey at our monthly
seminar on ÒComputer, Man and SocietyÓ at Columbia University that if he could
find such a theory, he should receive one hundred (100) Nobel Economic Prizes.
After a few month later, he did receive the 1996 Prize — but, alas,
only ONE!!
(b) 3Ts for fostering Creativity
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S66D1269D
Entrepreneurs, musicians, scientists,
designers, and engineers, made up 10% of the workforce in 1900. Today
they account for almost 30%, produce nearly half the countryÕs yearly wages and
salaries, and are far more mobile than ever before.
ItÕs not the machines or the technology that matter, but Òthe knowledge, intelligence, and creativity of the people.Ó
Pls have a very pleasant summer and be creative!!
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
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From:
john eger
<jeger@mail.sdsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 4
Aug 2006 15:42:39 -0700
To: <Jeger@mail.sdsu.edu>
Subject: I
thought you might find the attached of interest
In
The News
America in the Creative and Innovative Economy
Aug 03, 2006 By John Eger
If America does capture the high ground in this latest effort to lead the world
economy ... it will do so because the hearse is now at the back door of our
current economic situation. e continue to lose the high paying jobs to
outsourcing and off shoring which living in a "flat world" has
fostered.
Most economists now seem to agree that the emerging so-called "creative
and innovative" economy represents America's salvation. Given that
"the world is flat" -- as author and New York Times columnist Thomas
Friedman has pointed out in a book by the same name -- this new thinking
encourages America once again to do things it does best: "create and
innovate."
"The game is changing, Business Week magazine recently argued, "It
isn't just about math and science anymore (Although those are surely important
disciplines) It's about creativity, imagination, and, above all,
innovation."
Apple Computer's iPod is often cited as an example of the kind of innovation
most people are talking about. Providing easy, legal access to lots of songs
(iTunes) was something no one had yet managed. It was not simply making a slick
piece of hardware; it was the design of a whole system that made Apple the
leader of the innovation economy.
Similarly, Business Week points out it wasn't Edison's development of the light
bulb that marked his genius and ensured his place in history, but his design of
an entire system to produce and distribute electricity.
As we talk about the foreshadowing of a whole economy based upon creativity and
innovation -- the dawn of the "Creative Age" as the Nomura Research
Institute put it -- we are more acutely aware of the importance of reinventing
our business strategies, our corporations, our communities, our schools, our
housing and land-use policies and more. Nothing can remain the same if we are
to survive, let alone succeed in this new global economy.
For example, Michael Porter in his book The Competitive Advantage of Nations,
first published in 1990, pointed out the importance of "economic
clusters" -- "Geographic concentrations of interconnected companies,
specialized suppliers, service providers and associated institutions in a
particular field that are present in a nation or region." Such clusters,
he said, are central to survival in the wake of an uncertain global economy.
Today, corporations and the communities they serve must put themselves at the
forefront of this sweeping change in the structure of the world in which we
live and work. It is imperative that we begin in earnest to attract, retain and
nurture the creative and innovative workforce we know we need; and in the
process, create a new overlay of our land-use planning as well. Cities across
the U.S. have to change the lenses in their cameras and their parochial
thinking about "land use," the transformative value of technology and
the urgent need to reinvent our schools.
We need to redesign our high school and college curricula in particular, to
focus on preparing students for this new competition. While creative
industries, according to the Americans for the Arts are defined as
"arts-related," creativity and innovation are vital to the success of
all businesses. And we need to focus more on training the next generation of
leaders for the Creative Age.
The IIT Institute of Design in
Chicago, for example, reportedly has found a way to "bridge the chasm
between business and design." It defines design as "a core
methodology of innovation" and as such, it argues, represents the key to new
inventions and innovation itself. Business schools across America are
rethinking their curricula, too, as the Master of Fine Arts is as valued to
business as the revered MBA.
There is now no doubt that the
industrial economy is giving way to the creative economy. Corporations and
whole communities are at another crossroads. Attributes that made them ideal
for the 20th century could cripple them in the 21st, so they will have to
change dramatically.
Unless we awaken to the realities, our graduates will not find the work they
want and need, the purchasing power of the average family will continue its
downward spiral and the state of America's prowess in both the economic and
political arena will be lost.
John M. Eger is the Van
Deerlin Chair in Communications and Public Policy at San Diego State
University, and president of The World Foundation for Smart Communities.
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