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Moving our innovation thinking from barriers to ecosystems
Introduction Commercialization of federally funded research at universities faces a bewildering array of obstacles. The reason: innovation — the translation of knowledge into value (or money) — emerges...
View ArticleRebuilding our industrial commons
For over 30 years, U.S. manufacturing has been in relative decline in the face of relentless competitive pressure. Rebuilding our relative competitive position in manufacturing will not come easily....
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Learning more about the “How” of clusters
Ever since Michael Porter began promoting the concept of clusters in the mid-1990s, a lot has been written about the What and Why: What are clusters and Why are they important. Not so much useful has...
View ArticleWhat’s next: Horizontal innovation
The next big transformation in economic development is coming. It’s about time. Remarkably, most economic development organizations are still playing a game invented in Mississippi in the 1930s. It...
View ArticleInnovating in a world of complex networks
Betting against the U.S. economy has never been a smart idea. Time and again, our economy has shown remarkable resilience to overcome major disruptions, collapses and failures. From the several panics...
View ArticleThe shiny attraction of tax cuts
Years ago, as I was working on consulting teams, we helped companies like GE globalize their production. That meant moving jobs out of the U.S. The only way for the U.S. to adjust to this new global...
View ArticleStart-up and innovation ecosystems: Testbeds
It’s no surprise that academic research often lags behind market developments (Brown & Mawson, 2017). What if, to help us close this gap, we thought of practitioners and policy makers as...
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Designing platforms to design ecosystems
Ecosystems form on top of platforms. Ecosystem design starts with platform design. By designing the platform and guiding interactions on the platform, ecosystem builders can encourage the formation of...
View ArticleSlowly Understanding the Impact of Globalization
In 1984, I joined a boutique consulting firm, an offshoot of BCG. We had two major clients: GE and Volvo. For GE, we assisted the appliance division and their small motor business understand how to...
View ArticleDeveloping a University’s Two Ecosystems
Universities can develop two distinct, overlapping ecosystems: one targets at start-ups; the second focuses on innovative companies. To date, most universities concentrate on the first, less so on the...
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