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Title: Dr. Gus Koehler


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Dr. Gus Koehler
  • Dr. Gus Koehler (Principal Consultant) Time
    Structures
  • Adjunct Faculty (Regional and Economic
    Development) at the University of Southern
    California.
  • Time Structures Focuses on Temporal (Time) Issues
    Associated with Business and Policy Development
    and Implementation.
  • Consulting Areas
  • Planning for Transport Systems to the European
    Union
  • Computer Public Policy Simulations to RAND
  • California Legislatures Joint Committee for
    Preparing California for the 21st Century.
  • NSF grant to Develop a Computer Simulation on the
    Timing of Public Policy Interventions and the
    Affects on Industry Clusters.

2
California
  • California Redevelopment Association provides
    policy research and legislative advocacy support.
  • Former Director of Community Colleges Economic
    Development Program
  • led a successful statewide legislative effort to
    reauthorize the program, receiving unanimous
    approval from both Houses and the Governor.
  • Created ten initiatives to directly address
    workforce and economic development training
    concerns, the transferring of technology to
    business, business development services, and
    international trade.
  • Developed and Implemented a performance reporting
    system, including ROI and C/B analysis of
    outcomes.

3
Research
  • Senior Policy Analyst with the California
    Research Bureau
  • Conducted Policy Research for the California
    State Legislature
  • The Governor and other elected officials.
  • His research responsibilities included
    identifying and evaluating state economic
    development issues and recommending strategies to
    address them.
  • 27 years in government service in such as areas
    as disaster response and management, consumer
    protection, and health services.

4
Technical Advisor and Author
  • Provided Technical Advice
  • California Economic Development Strategy Panel,
  • Senate Select Committee on Economic Development
  • California Council on Science and Technology
  • The Workforce Investment Boards Small Business
    Advisory Committee
  • The Legislative Internet Caucus
  • The Assembly Standing Committee on Jobs, Economic
    Development and the Economy
  • Member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the
    Workforce Investment Board.
  • Prepared public policy reports on
  • Biotechnology, Californias foreign trade policy,
    bio-industry, small manufacturing, business
    networks, and California economic development.
  • Received a Small Business Administration Vision
    2000 award for his research on early-stage
    venture capital investment.
  • Written over 100 Academic Articles and Studies
  • Presented Papers and Speeches to various
    government, academic and private sector
    organizations.
  • Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology,
    University of California at Davis.

5
Connections Make All The Difference
  • Gus Koehler
  • Time Structures
  • Sacramento, CA
  • 916-564-8683
  • rhythm3_at_earthlink.net

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  • The Problem
  • A disconnect between the velocity of government
    and its capacity to envision and manage complex
    regulatory and programmatic interventions, and
    the velocity of the regulated sector, producing
    unexpected future outcomes.
  • The Solution
  • Ideally, adaptive Governance permits government
    to pattern an intervention to match the velocity
    of a regulated sector thereby achieving a desired
    future goal.

7
Global Competition Factors Affecting Firms and
Jobs
Firms
Regions
  • Trained, productive labor
  • Faster technology churn
  • Rapid product development
  • Price and quality competition
  • Protection or invasion of markets
  • Information technology
  • Flexible strategies
  • Global alliances and networks
  • Global availability of talent
  • Increased innovation globally
  • Converging competitive advantage of high-tech
    regions
  • Global adoption of Information and Communications
    technology
  • Regional independence conditioned multinational
    corporations, new forms of business networking
    and associated global distribution systems.

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Californias Six-Surge Economy
Bubbleburst2000
ColdWarend
Vietnam Warend
Internet
WWII
Depression
Civil War
WWI
1860
1900
1930
1950
1970
1990
2000
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Velocity of Government Policy Time
  • 6 months to 2 years for an issue to become
    politically visible
  • 10-20 minutes to advocate concept to Legislator
    or staff
  • 1-2 years to complete legislative process
  • Urgency bill 9 months
  • 10 days to 6 months for emergency regulations
  • 1-2 years for non-emergency regulations
  • 1-2 years to design and staff or seriously change
    existing government programs
  • 6 months to 1 year to make and refine policy
    initiatives based on field experience
  • Litigation of various time (years)

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Nodes, Hubs, And Links
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A
C
B
D
F
E
F
Hub a point with multiple links to many nodes
(airport hub).
Node a pointperson at a party for
examplehaving about The same number of links to
another (road map)
Links The higher the Connectivity The less the
distance, the faster the Dispersion of
information, ideas, products
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Government Nodes and Links
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Government Hub
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Percolation And Links
                                     
50 Connectivity makes Networks grow like a
Forest fire. Think ideas, information, and
products
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SE Bakersfield Enterprise Zone
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ETP
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Connections Summary
  • Government is a hierarchy of nodes. It is rigid,
    suitable for mass production
  • Economic Development services are resources,
    ideas and information nodes connected by hubs.
    They are rhizomic like industry
  • New industry clusters are new connections and
    rapidly disseminated information, resources,
    products (percolating)
  • Interlocking policy and management networks
    create hubs that keep the network productive and
    reduces vulnerability to failure particularly if
    percolation is encouraged.
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