HOLLEY June Transforming your regional economy learning from complexity science network theory and the field英文电子书.pdf

Transforming Your Regional Economy through Uncertainty and Surprise: Learning from Complexity Science, Network Theory and the Field June Holley, President/CEO Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet) November 8, 2003 Transforming Regional Economies 2 About the author June Holley is president, CEO and founder of the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet), a nonprofit organization in southeastern Ohio committed to working with others to create a healthy regional economy with opportunities for all. ACEnet focuses on two sectors—food/agriculture and, more recently, technology—helping entrepreneurs start then expand innovative businesses, weaving networks among those entrepreneurs and encouraging other area organizations to provide targeted and effective services. Ms. Holley has been reading and applying ideas from complexity science for almost 20 years and combining this knowledge with her study of innovation as it relates to economic transformation efforts around the world. This paper is an elaboration of a presentation, Fundamental Uncertainty In Business And Business Decision -Making , given at the conference Uncertainty and Surprise: Questions on Working with the Unexpected and Unknowable at the University of Texas, Austin, in April 2003. Introduction Transforming Regional Economies 3 Transforming Your Regional Economy: Learning from Complexity Science, Network Theory and the Field Introduction The field of regional development blossomed in the last decade, as re