Quantifying Innovation: An Empirical Index for Informing Communities and Empowering Community Leaders
Quantifying Innovation: An Empirical Index for Informing Communities and Empowering Community Leaders
Keith Herndon, Kate Hester (recent M.A. graduate), Brittany Adams-Pope (2023). “Quantifying Innovation: An Empirical Index for Informing Communities and Empowering Community Leaders.” Interactive poster presentation accepted for the International Leadership Association annual conference, Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 12-15.
Abstract: This project presentation explores how the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Innovation Intelligence Index, an online empirical tool, can be used as a resource for informing communities and for empowering community leaders as they seek to understand their region’s strengths and weaknesses in a highly competitive economic development landscape. This project is part of an ongoing collaboration between Grady’s Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership and UGA’s Fanning Institute for Leadership Development.
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