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