Step 5: Build a Thriving Innovation Workforce

Step 5: Build a Thriving Innovation Workforce

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...
Step 5: Build a Thriving Innovation Workforce

Step 4: Places, Spaces and Culture

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...
Step 5: Build a Thriving Innovation Workforce

Step 3: Stock the innovation funnel with a startup focus

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...
Step 5: Build a Thriving Innovation Workforce

Step 2: Craft a winning strategy

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...