About

Goal

Make the Boston area the most innovative region in the world by leveraging cooperation between innovation centers and start-up companies.

Mandate

We, the members of the Innovation Ecosystem come together to achieve:

  • Innovation breakthroughs from new insights gained from cooperating with other members of the ecosystem
  • Ensure that new ideas reach the market by attracting and sustaining the needed funding for innovation
  • Alignment between the employers and employees by attracting and cooperating with the local talent pool
  • The prosperity of the local economy

Issues to Be Solved

We, the members of the Innovation Ecosystem come together to achieve:

  • Innovation breakthroughs from new insights gained from cooperating with other members of the ecosystem
  • Ensure that new ideas reach the market by attracting and sustaining the needed funding for innovation
  • Alignment between the employers and employees by attracting and cooperating with the local talent pool
  • The prosperity of the local economy

Founders

David Doggett, Schneider Electric

Nicola Palmarini, IBM MIT Center for Artificial Intelligence

Garret Fitzpatrick, Shell Techworks

Tunde Akindele, Verizon Communications

Daniel Maceachran, Braskem

Jennifer Jordan, MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge

Hitendra Patel, IXL Center

Founders' Objectives

  • Catalyze the connectivity between innovation centers
  • Create a reason to meet every month
  • Be seen as founders of an important organization
  • Have fun
  • Leverage each others assets to make this real
  • Attract new partners who can contribute to this initiative