Innovation Insight has been contracted by the Florida High Tech Corridor Council to document the “downstream” qualitative and economic impacts of the External Matching Grant program at the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of Central Florida (UCF). This is an interesting, Council-funded program that commits $1M each year to its partner [...]

In October, 2006 Guy Hagen was elected to the Tampa Bay chapter of the National Defense Industry Association’s (NDIA) “Member at Large” board position. The responsibilities of the Member at Large include representing the interests of small defense and technology businesses.

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“Social capital” is becoming a buzzword in many sectors. This working paper compiles a number of presentations, instructional certification course material, and research that Innovation Insight has done regarding social capital. The paper introduces how the concept of social capital can be applied and measured to weave targeted networks that can be leveraged for [...]

Innovation Insight has been retained in 2006 by Enterprise Florida Inc. to assess Florida’s competitiveness regarding corporate headquarters of all sizes. The research will include state benchmarking, a review of economic development incentives, statewide consensus building regarding recruitment and attraction strategies, and a formal application to have “headquarters” classified as a Florida “high-impact” designated [...]

Innovation Insight has formed a strategic collaboration with financial services research giant Dalbar to offer specialized market research services to Florida’s banking, insurance, securities, and financial companies under the name “Arrowstrike“. This collaboration delivers the perfect combination of flexibility, responsiveness, reputation and capacity for its services including:

Surveys
Focus Groups
Consumer Confidence
Service Quality
Interviews
Benchmarking
Relationship Management
Market Trends
Organizational Network Analysis
In-House [...]

Innovation Insight is referenced as a qualitative methodology resource on the University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign) Exploratory Spatial Economic Base Analysis Center web site. The site hosts the industry cluster methodology development efforts of Dr. Ed Feser and Dr. Stuart Sweeney.
Dr. Feser’s “Benchmark Cluster” methodology is utilized in a number of Innovation Insight research [...]

This paper develops and describes a new network permutation method designed to enhance the utility of structural equivalence metrics in organizational and social network analysis. This method may be particularly useful in understanding industry supply chain networks where categorization may be hindered by vertical integration and horizontal integration structures of large companies, or where [...]

Valdis Krebs is the President of Orgnet and a fellow researcher in the field of social network analysis. On 2004, he published an article in the Cisco Internet Protocol Journal entitled “The Social Life of Routers” which applies network analytical methods to identifying ideal internet backbone topologies to be most resistant to malicious attacks. [...]

Medical technology industry cluster research by Innovation Insight was cited in the report, “Best Practices in the Implementation of Cluster-Focused Strategy” prepared for the Research Triangle Regional Partnership Future Clusters Competitiveness Initiative by the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina (November, 2003). Link goes to downloadable report.