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Here's an article from the student newspaper at Youngstown State University.  The article outlines the impact of the new Higher Education strategic plan on Youngstown State and the opportunities to create a center of excellence on the YSU campus.

Youngstown State has the opportunity to create an exciting center that integrates creativity, open innovation and entrepreneurship. Read more.

These areas are entirely new in management education. It creates an opportunity for Youngstown State to develop an expertise that can be easily applied within the region. For some additional background, check out this article by Henry Chesbrough on open innovation and strategy.

Chesbrough points out:

Recently, however, firms and even whole industries, such as the software industry, are experimenting with novel business models based on harnessing collective creativity through open innovation. The apparent success of some of these experiments challenges prevailing views of strategy.

YSU could start focusing on this opportunity as their center of excellence.