1. Check-in:

   1. Imagining the innovation ecosystem

2. Update:

   1. Aim of the ecosystem

3. To-do:

   1. Creation of high-level pathways to create an ecosystem

   2. Steps to take Monday morning

   3. Fun

4. Next steps

1. Imagining the innovation ecosystem:

• Free flow: Ice wants to have fun. Break some of the ice. A lot of initiatives like this, what would make this different - Hitendra. Need structure.

• Innovation club

• Best practices of ecosystem: Comps here, because of the ecosystem, but don’t use ecosystems. Not a tech push comp, don’t have a manufacturing plan. 

• Funding attraction

• Training

•  Innovating by combining ideas: Blur the lines of companies 

•  Exposing to other ideas: Best results of innovation: exposure to other influences

• Become better known (comp) in the us labour market

• Drive return on innovation

• Different perspectives 

• Labor market attractiveness 

• Create jobs 

• Prosperity of the local economy

• It can be bigger than all of us

2. Aim of the ecosystem:

• Fix ecosystem

• Innovation breakthroughs through new insights

• Funding attraction and sustaining for innovation 

• Increasing labor market attractiveness 

• Prosperity of local economy

Aim of founders:

• Learn something new

• Connect the dots

• Want to be around people who want to change something

• Broaden network

3. Actions:

• Help with talent attraction

• Marketing: Go into labour market as a group

4. Steps to take:

• Small event - to talk about a certain topic of interest (Escape room; Just social event)

• Workshops

• Design sprints with founders

• Bring additional people (1-2 each) 

• Name the group

• Website

Problem: Ecosystem broken: no flow from Unis to companies 

Worries: Putting company name on a big publication