The Groundbreakers

05/07/2024

Innovation ecosystems like Hamilton’s afford ideas, the currency of the knowledge economy. Partnered with McMaster, the city’s innovation infrastructure affords it the opportunity to pursue transformational economic leadership, powered by locally developed solutions to complex, global challenges.

Driven by the imperative to shift from an industrial to a knowledge-based economy, a partnership-based, multi-sector innovation ecosystem establishes itself in Hamilton, Ontario.

04/23/2024

Podcast: Malawi University of Science and Technology is emerging as an innovation wellspring, vaulting a nation of determined, talented people into the knowledge economy.

04/18/2024

Innovation ecosystems might be the most important construct in the innovation space.

Innovation ecosystems might be the most important construct in the innovation space.

10/30/2022

Truly tapping into Hustler Nation’s potential ... means an innovation ecosystem providing access to the education and infrastructure young people need to become true innovators and drivers of transformative, long term economic development. Only then can the dream come true - Kenya as an inventive, digitally transformed, regional economic powerhouse, reliably and continuously generating intellectual property, products and services.

Done right, Kenya will not only become an anchor state, but a startup state, where the nation’s industriousness, determination and hustle launch the regional economic powerhouse its people want and deserve.

Featured Article

06/22/2022

Why should you read this article? Improving innovation ecosystem outcomes - and transplanting those success factors everywhere they are needed - addresses a critically important, global problem. This article identifies key ingredients innovation ecosystems require for maximal success. "Supercluster" - a new way to implement innovation ecosystems, is defined and then linked to economic complexity: "building complex capabilities is a superior development strategy to chasing the ability to produce high-priced goods." …...

https://thegroundbreakers.net/the-new-innovation-paradigm-superclusters-and-economic-complexity/

Advancing The Universal Causes Of Education And Innovation Using The Built Environment As Our Foundational Material.

06/13/2022

StART-UP State. Take one kid, add one computer, and what do you get? Pretty often, a Minecraft player. The most popular sandbox game of all time, known for unlimited creativity and quaintly antiquated pixelated graphics, scratches very human itches: to build, to be free of others’ rules - to be king! - not to mention the average kid’s great interest in avoiding homework or cutting the grass....

https://thegroundbreakers.net/the-critical-link-between-innovation-and-nation-building/

Innovation ecosystem leaders are opening new terrain for nation builders. Examples: smart grid, ocean/blue economy, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity

06/10/2022

Knowledge Park’s CEO is Larry Shaw. He makes it clear that New Brunswick’s number one natural resource isn’t fishing, it isn’t forestry. It is the “research capability out of our academic institutions.” Making a “purposeful decision” in the late 90s to align with University of New Brunswick made research the foundation of strategy and the focus of their value-creating activities; applied research brought innovation to the forefront, and the region reinvigorated its pursuit of economic fusion.

Today, Knowledge Park is New Brunswick’s innovation epicentre.



https://thegroundbreakers.net/knowledge-park-analysis/

Strategy is fundamentally about how you’re going to deliver unique value. How Knowledge Park, NB, helped build a unique innovation ecosystem.

06/06/2022

Put another way, everything works until it doesn’t. The machinery of the modern world is perfectly predictable and so reliable as to be invisible - until it isn't.

https://thegroundbreakers.net/evergiven-covid19-innovation-interdependence-problem-solving/

Ever Given and Covid-19 serve to make a larger point about the fragility of progress while demonstrating humanity’s indomitable ingenuity

05/27/2022

Here is a real world, global problem.

Digital transformation accelerates certain positive trends and exacerbates some negative ones. Example: an empirical outcome of digital transformation is that it clusters in larger urban areas, e.g. Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Bangalore and others.

The influx of talent and investment, and the graduation and development of a diverse range of knowledge workers, together lead to increasing levels of innovation and entrepreneurialism. Head offices spring up, new infrastructure from transit to hospitals is afforded by a burgeoning tax base, all of which attracts further rounds of investment. It is economic fusion, in which accelerating pace, greater amounts of talent and advanced infrastructure release tremendous amounts of innovation and income energy, feeding overall societal progress and wellbeing.

The problem? You are not in one of those places. Most places are not those places.

https://thegroundbreakers.net/knowledge-park-introduction/

This Research Park Helped Revive New Brunswick's Economic Fortunes. Find Out How They Did It. Research, innovation and commercialization.

05/27/2022

Hello, everyone.

For as long as I can remember the connection between innovation and education has proved fascinating. Particularly how the structures we build, both physical and digital, contribute to our capacity to improve society.

Last year I began interviewing academic, policy and innovation ecosystem leaders, and investigating links to the stories and history of human progress. It is incredibly interesting stuff for those sharing these interests.

The result of that work is The Groundbreakers: a membership-driven newsletter service and, soon, free public podcast series. Further description may be found in the article.

For those interested, I have an ask. OK, a few asks! Please read the article. If you find it interesting, please visit The Groundbreakers. If you find that interesting or know of people who would, please share this post with your network. And, for those willing to help out a bit, I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions. As with all new things, mistakes will be made and lessons will be learned; with your feedback this will happen sooner rather than later .

Thanks for reading, and thank you for your support.

Ian.

https://thegroundbreakers.net/orientation-the-groundbreakers-and-who-is-it-for/

Advancing The Universal Causes Of Education And Innovation Using The Built Environment As Our Foundational Material.