Show Notes
- - Host: Dan Hugo
- - Summary: Does the Greater Vegas area have a healthy and vibrant Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem? Let us discussion which parts may be lacking, and more importantly, how we might address these missing pieces.
Entrepreneurial Innovation
- - They are not necessarily a single thing, but they do go great together.
- - Entrepreneurialism is sometimes about starting a business or a company or some similar endeavor, but sometimes it is an aspirational quality, and this matters!
- - Innovation happens when a there is a challenge of some kind, some ideation, and a potential solution that does not already exist emerges.
Evolution or Revolution
- - A culture of innovation takes time and depends heavily on people and their intellectual curiosity
- - An innovation infrastructure requires actual investment in resources, including places, tools, interconnection, and plain old funding.
- - Are these going to emerge in revolutionary fashion by sprinkling some capital over some glowing headlines? Or do these two critical components emerge over time?
Lacking Innovation Culture (top 3)
- - Networking is difficult
- - Solipsism does not necessarily enable out-of-box thinking
- - Drive is missing (eg Just Use What We Already Have)
Lacking Innovation Infrastructure (top 3)
- - Local Innovation Resources (Maker Spaces, research and experimentation, certification, etc)
- - Communication Tools (Conway´s Law, Slow Adoptions, Cultural Impediments)
- - Where does Innovation fit in a Destination City? (Infrastructure points to Tourism/Gaming/Entertainment/Sports first…)
What Next?
- - Recognize the gaps
- - Lead by example
- - Rinse, Repeat
