David Morf, a founding member of the Center for Semantic Excellence, is an applied economist whose focus is addressing business and workplace complexity, context, pattern — helping firms and organizations recognize, build, and leverage opportunities for sustainable knowledge-based innovation and growth. His work for over 35 years from the 1970s forward has enabled businesses, public agencies, and subject-matter specialists to see connections between themselves and the benefits flowing from new tools and fresh perspectives.
In 2007 he worked at Aelera Corp (Atlanta area), contributing to pricing, data sourcing, presentation, messaging, and marketing tasks for Aelera's initiatives in collaboration-enabled, knowledge-based innovation tools for regional economic development. He also managed design approaches for new regional economic analytics products such as regional risk indices and site location identification reports.
From 2001 until his Aelera experience, he worked with the Economic Development Research Group (Boston), Regional Dynamics (a virtual firm), and Regional Economic Models, Inc. (Amherst, MA). These expanded his interest in disruptive new online resources for collaborative regional economic development processes that explicate sector growth through innovative analytics. The implied semantic structures, particularly the new web-based multi-region economic modeling and collaboration technology at Regional Dynamics, helps people see how underlying meaning, viewed analytically as economic changes, can impact results by industry, time (forecast), and space (multiple regions).
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A veteran of the US Army, David holds an AB with honors in economics from Brown University and an MBA from Stanford University.