Resources Page
Here you can find a variety of links to key organizations as well as resource materials related to scenario planning in general and this project in particular.
We’ve also included a list of books available for purchase through Amazon on topics related to regionalism, innovation, technology-based economic development and, as an added bonus, other “stories” about Northeast Ohio.
Organizations:
- Beachwood Chamber of Commerce
- BioEnterprise
- Braintree
- College 360
- Cuyahoga County Commissioners
- Cuyahoga County Public Library
- Cuyahoga Valley Initiative
- Council on Competitiveness
- E-City
- Entrepreneurs for Sustainability
- Fund for Our Economic Future
- FUTURE at CIA
- Global Business Network
- Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce
- Greater Cleveland Partnership
- GreenCityBlueLake
- JumpStart
- Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU
- MAGNET
- NOCHE
- NorTech
- OFCC
- OneCommunity
- OPSC
- PolymerOhio
- Stark Development Board
- Team NEO
- Lorain County Chamber of Commerce
- Voices & Choices
- World Trade Center, Cleveland
- Wright Fuel Cell Group
- Youngstown Business Incubator
- Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber
Regionalism:
- The Regional City, Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton
- The Regional Governing of America, by David Y. Miller
- Regions That Work, by Manuel Pastor, et. Al
- Reflections on Regionalism, edited by Bruce Katz
Innovation:
- Seeing What’s Next, Clayton Christensen
- The World Is Flat, Friedman
- The Medici Effect, Johansson
- How Breakthroughs Happen, Hargadon
- Open Innovation, Chesborough
- The Innovator’s Dilemma
- Innovation: The Missing Ingredient
- Fast Second : How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets
Scenario Planning:
- Art of the Long View, Schwartz
- Scenarios in Public Policy, Ringland
- Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation, van der heijden
- Learning From the Future, Fahey et al
Other Stories:
- Crooked River Burning, Mark Weingardner
- The Coast of Akron, Adrienne Miller
- Akron Women, Endres et al
- Pepper Pike, Les Roberts (first in a series of Northeast Ohio-based mystery novels)
- Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron, Steve Love, et. Al
- Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! Dellinger & Giffels
- Steeltown USA: Work and Memory in Youngstown, Linkon and Russo
- Cleveland’s Gospel Music, Burton
- Euclid Avenue, Karberg
- A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film, Jean Shepherd