Mudlarking in the social ecology of cities – breaking the public-policy impasse
By Martin Ferguson

I’d like you to imagine for a moment … we are standing on the banks of the River Thames. We are going ‘mudlarking’ – combing the shore – to discover British experience of how place-based leveraging of social ecologies is changing the fortunes of people and their city environments and how cities are breaking the public-policy impasse of recent decades that has allowed the wellbeing of significant parts of their places to be forgotten, to be placed in the ‘too difficult’ box. Our mudlark began by observing numerous signs of the public policy impasse facing cities, including: a ‘new normal’ of perma-austerity, with unsustainable rises in demand for services that were conceived for different times […]

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Growing Innovation
by Janka Krings-Klebe

Unlike classic collaboration setups, open business ecosystems are not limited in their possibilities. Participating companies can combine their capabilities more quickly in order to jointly exploit new opportunities. Drucker Forum 2019 This article is one in the “shape the debate” series relating to the 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum, under the theme “The Power of Ecosystems” taking place on November 21 & 22, 2019 in Vienna, Austria.#GPDF19 #ecosystems Flexibility and speed in cross-company collaboration is what distinguishes ecosystems from other business setups. Innovation superclusters are a special kind of ecosystem, with one additional distinctive feature: they make it simple to quickly grow innovations to profitable size. Innovators in superclusters can easily partner with corporations in […]

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