TABLE OF CONTENTS Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Sustainable Collaborative Advantage
I saw the earth without any borders
Without any fighting, without any fear;
So, captain, give the order,
We're going to the next frontier.recollections of Apollo commander Eugene Cernan as written in a song by Paul and Ralph Colwell
The world is experiencing unprecedented change in applications of knowledge in every dimension of development, growth, revitalization, and organization. The demands and opportunities of an interdependent global economy have implications for private and public decision making by enterprises and communities, whether local, national, regional, or global. Most nations have launched major initiatives to harness their inherent capabilities within a transnational context. All has been done in the name of international competitiveness. Economies have been transformed, communities revitalized, emerging territories supported, and industrialized nations repositioned. We have much to learn from one another.
The foundation for a new economic world order has been laid one based on knowledge, innovation, and international collaboration. This is a new landscape for which the managerial rules have significantly changed but how, when and to what end?
In 1982, I had been working on the team assigned to bring the Microelectronics Computer and Technology Corporation (MCC) to Boston. After all, we had the most successful Route I28 high technology belt and the highest concentration of academic...
