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All Stages: Innovation Ecosystem—Qualifying and Leveraging the Internal and External Agents Based on Merit

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This chapter pinpoints the five causes behind not leveraging appropriately a research center’s innovation ecosystem. These are a lack of understanding of the innovation ecosystem, internal gaps, no external proximity, a lack of internal resources or hooks to keep talent, and few interactions among the ecosystem’s agents. Nine practical mechanisms being applied by recognized centers to confront these issues are then presented: qualifying the stakeholders of your innovation ecosystem; connecting with your internal decision makers, influencers and advisors; adapting your commercialization model to the characteristics of your ecosystem; connecting virtually with disperse agents; crowdsourcing the areas of your value chain that are not in the core business; capitalizing on aging; moving from academics to entrepreneurial academics; and recognizing academic entrepreneurs before they leave.

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Siota, J. (2018). All Stages: Innovation Ecosystem—Qualifying and Leveraging the Internal and External Agents Based on Merit. In: Linked Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60546-3_6

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