{"id":1273,"date":"2012-05-09T18:44:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/?page_id=1273"},"modified":"2018-04-30T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T02:30:26","slug":"innovation-and-knowledge-based-economics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/innovation-and-knowledge-based-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation and Knowledge-Based Economic Development: the Paradigm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the current rage in economic development. Some would call it the paradigm. The more cynical among us label it the politically correct approach to revitalize your community and save Western Civilization. If ever there were an economic development strategy whose proponents are true believers on the path to salvation, Innovation and Knowledge-Based ED is it. Does it really work, however?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/innovation-collage1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1279\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"innovation collage\" src=\"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/innovation-collage1-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>Innovation economics, an offshoot of neo-Keynesian economics and the knowledge-based Economy, while\u00a0certainly interrelated with innovation economics, has a longer history and can usefully be thought of as a derivative of the old Third Wave, Post Industrial Revolution Era.<\/p>\n<p>The Curmudgeon does not reject this approach, but believes very strongly any economic developer attempting this strategy should be aware of its underlying goals, values and its origin. In our current world, it is the solution to all urban and community ails, the key which opens up heaven&#8217;s doors. It also may be hollowing out our working and middle classes&#8211;and condemning the underclass to perpetual inequality and poverty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the current rage in economic development. Some would call it the paradigm. The more cynical among us label it the politically correct approach to revitalize your community and save Western Civilization. If ever there were an economic development strategy whose proponents are true believers on the path to salvation, Innovation and Knowledge-Based ED [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1275,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4939,"href":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1273\/revisions\/4939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.c2er.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}