It Takes a Village to Raise an Idea

I was recently asked to deliver a keynote for a conference devoted to economic development professionals.  I chose to focus on the notion of building entrepreneurial communities - as you can see, I borrowed the village theme of raising children and applied to it to developing ideas.

My talk centered on building entrepreneurial communities and the power behind organizing your community as an ecosystem.  As most of you know, I work best with visual frameworks and so I created the visual model below to steer the conversation.

I've been developing my thinking around the pedals to push to build vibrant commercialization communities.  If you have thoughts and suggestions on this topic that you'd like to contribute,  or even inputs to improve the framework below, please comment on this post. I'd love to engage my own ecosystem in the next version of this model.