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| Enhance your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: One-on-one consulting available at no additional charge It seems daunting to try to change the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem of a region or country. But when you consider that the key individuals who make the entrepreneurial ecosystem work constitute perhaps less than 1% of the professional population, the challenge seems far more manageable. There are good examples of outstanding individuals successfully innovating, even in developing economies where there is little or no support for entrepreneurship. What can we learn from these individuals? They are successful in part because they are very skillful in building a supportive environment around them. They create what Steve Brown describes as a Micro-Cluster for Innovation, MCI(tm). Steve has spent 12 years working at MIT and in 10 other countries with over 100 startups as a technology licensing officer, as an MIT 100k entrepreneurial contest judge, National Science Foundation grant reviewer and consultant. From those experiences he has identified those characteristics of MCI's that are common across cultures and regions. Come to the global start up workshop and learn how you can create a MCI for yourself or your clients quickly and at little or no cost. Steve Brown of Innovate4Growth will deliver the keynote address on the second day of the conference describing MCI's. After the keynote there will be an opportunity for those selected participants to meet one-on-one with Steve to discuss how best to custom craft an MCI for their environment. If you are interested in a one-on-one meeting with Steve please e-mail Steve at sfbrown [at] mit.edu with no more than two pages of information describing what works well in your ecosystem, and what works poorly. Participants will be selected based on the quality of their input. |
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