Conference Presentations

The Ecosystem Project aims to develop tools and methodologies for depicting the complex ecosystems that surround and make up higher education. This is a collaborative presentation with one of the project's institutional partners, The State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, and one of the project's founding partners, the Renaissance Center for Interdisciplinary Thinking, Knowledge Integration, and Advanced Applications of Imagination. Together we'll explore the Hudson Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem and reveal its inhabitants, value dynamics, and potential interventions that can help the ecosystem become healthier and grow the entrepreneurial economy of the lower Hudson Valley.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the ecosystem mindset and how it differs from the view of our institutions through budgets, organizational charts, and common institutional characteristics and metrics.
2. Explore the tools and methodologies of ecosystem depiction using an array of canvases for engaging ecosystem inhabitants in the depiction process.
3. Recount a case study from SUNY New Paltz and the Hudson Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem that demonstrates the ecosystem approach.
4. Consider the ability of ecosystemic thinking to produce better innovations and interventions with a higher degree of success in solving wicked problems than traditional linear approaches.

Presenters:

Kristin Backhaus, Dean of the School of Business, State University of New York at New Paltz
Robert Brodnick, Founder, Sierra Learning Solutions
John Cimino, President and Chief Executive Officer, Creative Leaps International

Delivered 07/23/2024.

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