innovation ecosystem management

There is a peculiar habit in innovation ecosystem work: we use governance, orchestration, and management as if they were the same word. Watch any three people discuss an ecosystem intervention long enough and you will […]

Innovation ecosystem. Cluster. Innovation district. Innovation hub. Network. Platform. Living Lab. Anyone who has spent time in innovation policy or corporate strategy over the last decade will recognize the ritual: we start a conversation about […]

There is a conversation I have been having with experienced innovation leaders for about as long as I have been in this profession. It usually starts with someone observing that the valley of death is […]

Recently, in a LinkedIn post of mine on the composition of innovation ecosystems, Bror Salmelin made a comment that I have kept turning over since. “Just look at OI2 and Living Labs combined,” he wrote. […]

I have been wrong about innovation ecosystems for twenty years. Not entirely wrong, but wrong enough that it bothers me now that I see it. Let me explain. For most of my career — as […]