by GACTH | Nov 26, 2024 | Article
A thriving innovation workforce, essentially the collection of people that do the work in an innovation ecosystem, is the output of coordinated, collective action. Schools, startup alumni, job boards, events and conferences, unions, recruiting agencies, government...
by GACTH | Nov 20, 2024 | Article
Spatial proximity is a driver of productive collaboration on new ideas. The formula has been used successfully many times by Bell Labs, Research Triangle Park, and Xerox PARC. A recent study of MIT professors quantified the impact showing that as physical distance on...
by GACTH | Nov 11, 2024 | Article
Universities, corporations, SMBs, the public sector, and startups all drive innovation, so why focus on stocking the innovation funnel with high growth startups? First, startups catalyze building the connective tissue of an ecosystem more efficiently than any other...
by GACTH | Nov 11, 2024 | Article
If defining the ambition leans into the “will” of an ecosystem, then crafting a strategy leans into its “skill”. In the previous post, Boston’s identity as the “capital of the scientific revolution” set a direction based upon...
by GACTH | Nov 11, 2024 | Article
Innovation ecosystems underpin every leading innovation hub, district, and region. They are complex, multi-tiered collections of tightly and loosely connected organizations that collaborate to transform ideas to products/business by ensuring access to resources and...