“Proximity Matters” in an innovation context.
Your success in moving ideas from the lab (or studio) and into the marketplace is directly related to how close together you can bring all of the people involved in business creation and support. How you empower and enable them to work collaboratively and co-operatively, and how you maintain quality of support delivery. This is fundamentally what developing and nurturing an effective innovation ecosystem is all about.
However, it’s not just about a specific location, city or region. It’s also about people! Many stakeholders are involved in making environments successful (physical or virtual) – many with unique skills that might surprise you or that you would normally overlook. We’ve brought industry (corporate and SME), government organisations, academic research, investors, and support networks together to create collaborations that have tangible, measurable value and impact.
The Founders of Innov8tive Minds have helped build dynamic ecosystems all over the world. Our experience includes building virtual environments as well as physical innovation centres from the ground up. These complex and interactive systems are comprised of many factors that can help, or hinder, success. Given that breadth of experience, we can help you understand those factors and increase a project’s likelihood of success. We help you avoid making mistakes in building your ecosystem, to reduce risk and better manage costs.