Key facilitators in the workshops include:

-- Leading U.S., Babson Executive
Education -- a top-ranked provider of executive education programs -- has
developed a new program, Managing in the Knowledge Age, to help managers and
professionals leverage their most critical resource -- knowledge -- in work,
in business practices, and in products and services.W. For information, visit
http://www .

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Similar pilots will be conducted in inner-
city schools in the United States throughout the winter and spring.
The good news is, this 2005 Innovation Summer Camp was to the full
satisfaction of the teachers, the students and the principals. This will
definitely pave the way for future GKE movement in China. WELLESLEY, Mass. Abernathy
Professor of Business Administration Emerita at Harvard Business School.

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-- Jianping Xu, CTO of Jersey Cow, and Maura Carey, Jersey Cow's lead
interactive designer, will provide the technical and technology-based
instructional foundations. On-going
collaborative exchanges of art shows and digital exhibitions will be
established between schools in China and the United States through Jersey Cow
and Davis Publications.

Larry Prusak, Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Babson Executive
Education; Co-Executive Director , Working Knowledge Research Center, Babson
Executive Education

-- Recognized expert in helping organizations leverage and optimize their
information and knowledge resources
-- Coauthored pioneering books on working knowledge with Tom Davenport,
including Working Knowledge and award-winning What's the Big Idea:
Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking
-- Coauthor with Don Cohen of In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes
Organizations Work, listed as one of the 2001 Best Business Books by
Harvard Business School Press
-- Founder and former Executive Director of the Institute for Knowledge
Management, a global consortium, and former Principal and Founder of
Ernst + Young's Center for Business Innovation
-- Named one of the most admired knowledge leaders in the world by Work
Frontiers International (2000)

More information on Larry Prusak can be found at
http://www. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson
College. Business leaders from across the country will discuss the
importance of innovation and creative thinking to business and organizational
success, and they will team with local creative talent to lead interactive,
hands-on workshops which will teach these skills. Additional registration information available at
http://www.

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This is the day you, I,
and all the people in this cross-Pacific community are looking forward to.

"Sarasota is a center of
creativity ."
An innovation expo will also be held during the Summit, showcasing the
many assets Sarasota has to offer businesses seeking new resources for human
capital, creative services, and sites for expansion.icbsummit.

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For information or to apply visit http://www.edu/bee/knowledge., Ringling School of Art and Design
and the Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County (EDC) will host
the first Innovation Creativity Business Summit from October 5 - 7, 2005 in
Sarasota."
The interactive workshops and activities will be customized for each
attendee to match their specific skill levels and workplace challenges.

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The camp also provides professional development
presentations that concentrate on helping teachers understand and teach
innovative skills so they can apply the principles gained within the camp in
their classroom lessons. Combining a deep understanding of interactive gaming and learning
with industry best practices for software engineering, Jersey Cow works both
domestically and internationally with clients ranging from educational
publishers to entertainment media companies.

A distinctive component of Managing in the Knowledge Age is the strategic
knowledge project, or "live case study" -- the epitome of action-based
learning .laurenceprusak., is recognized internationally as a
leader in entrepreneurial management education . The
Summit will be held in locations usually not associated with conference
sessions, introducing attendees to Sarasota and furthering the objective of
creativity. The community has a robust arts and cultural environment,
innovative technologies and a thriving spirit of entrepreneurialism on
Florida's Gulf Coast.

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Hands-on, project-based learning activities from an innovative Davis
Publications curriculum have been adapted, localized and translated for use in
both China and the United States.
"Creativity is the commodity in our future economy," said Larry Thompson ,
president of Ringling School of Art and Design.

About Ringling School of Art and Design
Ringling School of Art and Design is a fully accredited four-year college
located in Sarasota , Florida.

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Jersey Cow Software and Davis Publications to Lead Second International Global Knowledge Exchange Innovation Camp in China

It shows large corporations how to be agile, efficient, and
effective under adverse conditions and during periods of growth. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to
experienced managers worldwide.babson.

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The GKE
Innovation Camp is sponsored by the elite Peking University's Allied
Elementary School (AESPU) in conjunction with The Guangzhou Children 's Palace
and Guangzhou Children's Museum.J.jerseycow. Leonard's major
research interests and consulting expertise relate to managing knowledge for
innovation and stimulating creativity in group settings .edu/bee. Babson grants BS degrees
through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and
MBA degrees through the F.com .

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com. The EDC coordinates industry cluster activities and provides
business assistance to companies in Sarasota County in partnership with
chambers of commerce, local governments and other organizations throughout the
county and the region. For information call 941-955-2508, ext.

It's like anything else, if you practice a lot you'll get good at it.

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Leonard wrote the seminal book on knowledge creation, Wellsprings of
Knowledge, and initiated and served as faculty chair for the "Leveraging
Knowledge for the 21st Century" executive program at HBS.
Registration is $399 for corporate employees and $299 for employees of
non-profit organizations.

Every one can learn how to be creative.

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Davenport is a recognized authority on knowledge management, knowledge
worker productivity, and organizational learning.babson. "The Summit will help managers and executives find new, creative
ways to make productive and stimulating changes in the workplace that have
real impact.

About the Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County
The Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County (EDC) is the
private , not-for-profit corporation charged with implementing Sarasota
County's economic development strategy to add high-wage jobs and diversify the
local economy.

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S. The team also will conduct presentations in both
Beijing and Guangzhou on the theoretical side of project-based learning and
the role of play and gaming in a modern innovative technology-assisted
learning curriculum. Ringling School is recognized as being
among the best and most innovative visual arts colleges in the United States
as well as a leader in the use of technology in the arts.

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J. art educators, Nancy Walkup, educator , author and editor
of SchoolArts magazine, the leading U."

JERSEY COW SOFTWARE
Jersey Cow(R) Software is an interactive learning consulting company that
designs and implements learning environments, web communities and CD-ROM based
products.
Through a blend of case studies, faculty presentations, practitioner-led
sessions, executive coaching, and group discussion , participants will:
* Gain a better understanding of the global knowledge economy;
* Develop or refine a knowledge strategy;
* Leverage social networks in their organizations;
* Define the processes necessary for successful execution of knowledge-
intensive projects;
* Improve knowledge worker productivity;
* Measure the relative cost of knowledge transactions;
* Understand and employ critical knowledge and learning activities;
* Define roles and responsibilities;
* Learn how to develop and foster communities of practice.com.

Babson College
Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.newswise.com after May 1. For information on registration or
sponsorship opportunities call 866-734-9661 or send an email to
info@icbsummit.S.

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magazine in art education, and
Bill Walkup, art specialist and regular presenter at state and national
art education association conferences.com. and the only one in Florida. 240 or visit
http: //www.edcsarasotacounty.

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, Jersey Cow(R) Software and
Davis Publications will lead the second Global Knowledge Exchange (GKE)
Innovation Camp in Beijing and Guangzhou, China, in January 2006.S. The company was founded in 1983
and is headquartered in Franklin Park, N."
Managing in the Knowledge Age offers access to the leading thinkers on the
subject of knowledge and organizational learning as well as interaction with
those innovators who have had success in using knowledge and learning to make
their organizations more efficient and effective. Participants will define a knowledge management project that is
either underway or in discussion at their organizations.tomdavenport.

Babson Executive Education
Babson Executive Education is ranked among the leading providers worldwide
of custom executive programs for companies by both BusinessWeek and The
Financial Times.

This news release was issued on behalf of Newswise(TM).

Sarasota to Host National Innovation Creativity Business Summit

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-- Jersey Cow Software President Robert Wickenden and his 14-year-old son ,
Robert Wickenden, a GKE intern and facilitator in past innovation camps
and seminars .

Babson Launches Program 'Managing In The Knowledge Age'

According to Davenport, "Whether a business sells software, sneakers, or
services, the trend is the same: physical assets -- once the only source of
competitive wealth and power -- have given way to intangible and intellectual
assets in driving competitive success.

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The camp is part of a pilot project
involving schools in the U. The project will be
revisited throughout the program and participants will have the opportunity to
discuss it with faculty through periodic coaching sessions. Babson Executive Education fosters the spirit of innovation:
the drive to identify new opportunities and bring them to commercial
realization .

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art textbook
publisher, along with AESPU and the Children's Palace and Children's Museum of
Guangzhou , are coordinating with world-renowned museums in both countries to
make the GKE Innovation Camp possible .com or phone 732-422-0101.

"Success in today's highly competitive business world is really about
'mind over matter,'" says Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor
of Information Technology + Management, Babson College, who will co-direct
this new open enrollment program on April 9-13, 2006, in the award-winning
Babson Executive Conference Center in Wellesley , MA.babson.edu.

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S. The camp enables students and teachers
from Beijing and Guangzhou to participate in international collaborative
learning workshops that foster innovative thinking and problem-solving within
a creative environment. For more information, visit
http://www.

Faculty Directors
Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of Information
Technology + Management, Babson College; Director of Research, Babson
Executive Education; Co-Executive Director , Working Knowledge Research Center,
Babson Executive Education

-- Recognized authority on knowledge management, knowledge worker
productivity, and organizational learning
-- Wrote or coauthored ten books, including pioneering books on knowledge
management -- Working Knowledge, The Attention Economy, and Thinking
for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge
Workers
-- Author of What's the Big Idea: Creating and Capitalizing on the Best
Management Thinking, named one of the three best books of the Spring
2003 season by Fortune
-- Author of hundreds of articles and columns for Harvard Business Review ,
Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Financial
Times, Information Week, and CIO
-- Named a top 25 consultant in the world by Consulting magazine (2003)
and one of the five top strategy and technology analysts in the world
by Optimize magazine (2005)
-- An Accenture Fellow; former professor at Harvard Business School,
University of Chicago, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, and
University of Texas at Austin; former director of research centers at
Ernst + Young, McKinsey + Company, and CSC Index

More about Tom Davenport can be found at http://www. For more
information on Babson Executive Education and custom solutions, open programs,
and research centers, visit the website: http://www. For more
information, visit http://www.

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He has authored or
coauthored more than a hundred articles and ten books, including pioneering
books on knowledge management -- Working Knowledge, The Attention Economy, and
the highly-acclaimed Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and
Results from Knowledge Workers.

Other faculty will include Dorothy Leonard, the William J.com. Founded in 1931,
Ringling School is the oldest private, non-profit studio-based college of art
and design in the southeastern U.

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FRANKLIN PARK, N.

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and China that will continue throughout 2006 to
lay the foundation for long-term international learning collaborations.
Jersey Cow Software, a leading international developer of interactive
learning applications, and Davis Publications, the leading U.
Following the first camp in 2005, Richard Xiang of GKE Beijing II and
organizer of the China aspects of the camps said: "I am sure the innovation
'seeds' we have planted in the minds of teachers and students will grow, and
the movement here will one day see its breakthrough. The Conference Teaches Innovation and Creativity for Business

SARASOTA, Fla.

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"To successfully compete in today's marketplaces, companies must apply
their most rigorous thinking to problem solving ," said Kathy Baylis, EDC
president. Approximately 1,000 students are enrolled from
46 states and 33 foreign countries.

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We are excited about sharing expertise from our
community with the nation 's business leaders.