project ptolemy
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Project Ptolemy
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Relevant
Authentic
1995-1999�M&A
2002-2007 Globalization
2002-2007 Globalization
2008- Present Private Equity
2002 Sustainability
2007- Present Executive Education
The extent of the damage after the destruction !
wrought by “financial weapons of mass destruction”
Source: New York Times “In Greek Crisis, Some See Parallels to U.S. Debt Woes”, May 12, 2010
“Economic Pearl Harbor”
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Nation Rebuilding
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Konrad Adenauer
German reconstruction post WWII
“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”
- Paul Romer
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“extrapolation of the past”
vs.
“inventing the future”
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The past Consumption driven growth
Natural resource intensive
Capitalism based on free markets
Zero sum outsourcing manufacturing and services to BRICs/ G20
Trade deficits
Demographic disaster
Non-Keynesian trickle down economics
Source: Popular Mechanics, Wikipedia
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Inventing the future
Investment driven growth: “Export or die”
Resource efficient
Capitalism 2.0: Incentives to create equal global playing field
Outsourcing 2.0: Harnessing the network effect of global markets
Trade surpluses based on high value exports
Demographic dividend
Keynesian trickle up: SMB Geo Clusters 9
ISEM: "Innovative Sustainable
Economic Models
Potential ISEM Paradigms
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Knowledge stocks vs. flows
“Innovation blowback”!
Li & Fung
How GE is disrupting itself!
Potential ISEM Paradigms
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iPod designed in California,
manufactured in China
2% costs= Chinese labor
70%= US engineering, design,
software, distribution
Potential ISEM Paradigms
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Coda: all electric sedan built on
Chinese technology
Manufacturing shifting to Ohio
ISEM: The NEC view
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Focus areas
Source: NEC Office of Science and Technology Policy, “A Strategy for American Innovation: Driving Towards Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs”
ISEM: The NEC view
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Innovation Funding in the Recovery Act
Source: NEC Office of Science and Technology Policy, “A Strategy for American Innovation: Driving Towards Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs”
ISEM: Potential propositions
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Water preservation
Food security/ urban agriculture
Universal ID (India case study)
Medical records
Medical tourism
Electronic cash
Solar installation
Netbooks Personalized K-12
education (Netflix/ Dreambox
learning)
Electronic voting
Aerial / drone based security
Space exploration
Individualized gene therapy
(23andme)
LEED buildings