Jul 20, 2017 | Build & Support
“Adventurer Mission – i think you should apply” And with this personal email invitation in May, 2017, I was introduced to the concept of the Advance Queensland Venturer Program. The Program, brain child of Queensland Chief Entrepreneur Mark...
Jul 8, 2017 | Build & Support
If you were to get your tribe together, who would be in the room? At the recent inaugural two-day ESHIP Summit in Kansas City, the Kauffman Foundation’s Andy Stoll asked me if I had found my tribe. My answer was unequivocally “Yes”. The ESHIP Summit focused on...
May 17, 2017 | Ecosystem Mapping
The journey of the entrepreneur is inherently tied to the place in which they develop their idea and grow and scale their enterprise. This is evident when environments such as Boulder, Colorado and Silicon Valley become synonymous with startup activity and a testament...
May 2, 2017 | Build & Support
It has been a busy few months since my three weeks in North America visiting as many innovation hubs, co-working spaces, investment groups, councils, and accelerators as I could fit in across Boulder, Denver, San Francisco, Kansas City, Toronto, Seattle, and...
Jan 3, 2016 | Build & Support, Research & Measurement
Innovation needs community Leaders talk about having a “culture of innovation”, but culture can be limited to the confines of the organisation. A community development approach can be better suited to the open nature of the innovation ecosystem....
Oct 25, 2015 | Research & Measurement
“Over 5 million jobs face a high probability of being replaced in the next decade or two.”~Nathan Taylor, CEDA Chief Economist The JOB: the foundation of corporate productivity, the goal of academic curriculum, and the basis for professional identity. Employment...
Oct 14, 2015 | Research & Measurement
If innovation is doing something “new”, how do you know which “new” you should do? I was speaking with a business leader about my recent thoughts on a simple definition of innovation, which is: “Something new that has value for a group of people”. Her...
Oct 6, 2015 | Research & Measurement
You can’t throw a stick these days without hitting someone who will invent a better way of throwing sticks or redefine why we need sticks in the first place. Innovation is increasingly pervasive due to a range of converging factors, such as: The rapid rise of...
