Thriving in an age of
Disruptive Innovation in
the Knowledge Economy
Building Northeastern Maryland’s
Collective Intelligence Cluster
Gary Markovits
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Innovation Business Partners, Inc.
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Knowledge Content Required 
High
The
Knowledge
Economy
• The US economy is
transitioning from
muscle to mind.
From physical
resources to
knowledge
resources
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Monthly Labor Review, March 2006
Occupational Changes during the 20th Century
Ian D. Wyatt and Donald E. Hecker
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(C,B’)
RADICAL
Beliefs 
(T’,C’)
NOVEL
NOVEL
(T,C’)
(C’,B’)
DISRUPTIVE
(T,C)
EXISTING
(T’,C)
Technology 
NOVEL
SUSTAINING
EXISTING
EXISTING
Concepts of Operation 
Disruptive Innovation
(C,B)
EXISTING
(C’,B)
NOVEL
Competencies 
Disruptive innovations are driven by novel combinations of technologies and
CONOPS that challenge the beliefs and/or competencies of the target
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Everybody knows something, but no one knows everything!
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Collective Intelligence
• Human intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply
knowledge and skills
• Collective intelligence is the ability of a network of people to
acquire and apply knowledge and skills at a rate that far
exceeds that of the individual
• Micro-foundation of collective human intelligence is the
tacit-explicit dialogue:
Tacit-Explicit Dialogues = 2N – N – 1
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Collective Intelligence Network
• Sportswear and Apparel
company
• 1,211 inventions 1/2013
 12/2016
• 23 solo inventions
removed
• 1,188 inventions with
two or more inventors
• 851 unique
collaborators
• Color coded clusters
reveal product line and
geography effects
• 30 connected
components from 2 to
771 inventors
• LCC 88% of inventor
population
• Note bridgers
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Maryland’s Inter-Organization
Collaboration Networks
• 2,959 MD inventions
1/2013  8/2016
• 277 inventions with one
or more MD assignees
and one or more MD
inventors
• 241 unique organizations
• Node diameters scaled by
betweenness centrality
• Dominated by Johns
Hopkins, USM, and HHS
• Lymphoma cluster 24
inventors, 11 assignees
from 5 countries
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Jan 2000 – Dec 2014
299 Inventions
283 Inventors
72 US PTO classes
US PTO Primary Classifications

Number of Inventions
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Jan 2013 – Oct 2015
1,060 Inventions
1,579 Inventors
107 US PTO classes
115 Assignees
US PTO Primary Classifications

Number of Inventions
Greater Trenton Region – Industry
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Intersection of GTR and NJIT
43 technical domains
for potential universityindustry collaboration
US PTO Primary Classifications
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Number of Inventions
10
Jan 2000 – Dec 2014
46 technical
domains for
collaboration
US PTO Primary Classifications

Number of Inventions
Intersection of NASA and Norfolk Private Sector
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Collective Intelligence Clusters
• Connecting intelligent
people based on similarities
and innovating based upon
differences
• Hub provides neutral
ground with expertise in X,
Y, and Z
• Informal to formal structure
• From risk pooling to client
specific R&D
• Generation and transfer of
knowledge and skills
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MD Government University Resources
• USMD – 12 Institutions, 2 Regional Centers
• 25+ Private Universities
• 74 Federal Laboratories
• 17 Military Installations
The Potential Collective
Intelligence Network is
Enormous!
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Q&A
Gary Markovits
(914) 474-9499
[email protected]
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