Cluster Member Map
Map out your cluster members to get a better overview and deeper insights into their growth stages and their capital needs. The Cluster Member Map gives you an idea of how well you know and understand your cluster members.
Cluster Member Map
Map out your cluster members to get a better overview and deeper insights into their growth stages and their capital needs. The Cluster Member Map gives you an idea of how well you know and understand your cluster members.
Main Outcomes
Understand Your Members’ Capital Needs
Use the Map to gain insights into the equity capital need your members to have. A typical innovation cluster of 100 – 150 members, can expect 25 % – 75% of the members to be at some fundraising stage. Make sure you really understand this and what challenges they are struggling with.
Upgrade Your Capital & Entrepreneurship Strategy
Once you have a reasonable estimate and analysis of the cluster’s aggregate capital requirement for the next 6 – 36 months, let this insight drive your capital and entrepreneurship strategy.
Deliver More Growth Capital
The real impact of the Cluster Member Map is simple; deliver more growth capital into the cluster and its members. Help build capabilities, investor readiness, and access to capital and drive financial velocity across your cluster members.
Use Case: Health Innovation Cluster
A Nordic Digital Health Innovation Cluster was set up within the paradigm of Triple Helix. Focusing heavily on research-driven innovation and public funding for the first two years, the cluster CEO realized a step change was needed. Pivoting to the market, made them realize that most market makers were public organizations with complex purchasing structures.
Pivoting again, the cluster realized the need to focus on capital and entrepreneurship. Following a strategy process (using several of Strategy Tools’ Supercluster Series), the Digital Health Cluster decided to map out the actual capital need (investor capital need), of its 100+ members had.
Using the Cluster Member Map to map out and analyze life stages (seven), and funding needs high-medium-low (using a member survey with actual $ data), the cluster CEO realized his members’ capital need was significantly higher than anything they had expected.
This led to a dramatic shift and upgrade in the cluster’s strategy for capital and investor readiness, kicking off multiple programs and activities to accelerate entrepreneurship and investor development at the cluster level.
Problem It Solves
✓ How can I structure my cluster members?
✓ How can I get a better overview and insights into my cluster members
✓ What are the growth stages and capital needs of my cluster members
✓ How well do I know and understand my cluster members
Who Is It For?
✓ Cluster CEO’s
✓ Cluster Managers
✓ Cluster Boards
✓ Economic Development Agencies
✓ National Cluster Leadership
✓ National Innovation Agencies
✓ National Innovation Centers
✓ National Startup Hubs
✓ National Transformation Projects
✓ Ministries of Trade, Innovation, Growth
✓ Political Leadership
✓ Supercluster experts
✓ Consultants
✓ Ecosystem builders
✓ Business Schools
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