Friday, June 28, 2019
Insights: How to Build Your Innovation Community
For our Insights and Opinions section today, where we share contributed articles from the Southern California technology community, we have Eric Eide, of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation, a nonprofit that recently has been working on trying to help support the local entrepreneurial community across the region. Eric was most recently on the Government Relations team at startup electric scooter rental company Bird.
In collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), we interviewed over 60 community members across SoCal innovation stakeholder groups to understand the range of frictions entrepreneurs face. BCG and the Alliance used these insights to build a comprehensive Playbook of solutions to be utilized by SoCal leaders, including “recipe books” tailored to each community type
To illustrate how our playbook of strategies can be used to address the variety of friction sources for startup growth, I pulled a few quotes from our stakeholder interviews and match them with potential solutions from the Playbook. These solutions are just a taste of the twenty-eight strategies inside the Playbook for Node Activation that the Alliance uses in our consultations with the innovation communities we partner with. Continued
You can read the rest of the article, How to Build Your Innovation Community, in our Insights section.