Cluster Startup Portfolio
Build a startup portfolio for your cluster. Define strategic areas of interest to your corporate members, we call them Investment Areas. Map out your current startups and scale-ups, and develop new programs to grow your startup portfolio. Connect startups to corporates for mutual impact.
Cluster Startup Portfolio
Build a startup portfolio for your cluster. Define strategic areas of interest to your corporate members, we call them Investment Areas. Map out your current startups and scale-ups, and develop new programs to grow your startup portfolio. Connect startups to corporates for mutual impact.
Main Outcomes
Start With Your Corporate Members’ Needs
Begin by defining the innovation needs of the cluster’s corporate members. Talk to the CEO, Board of Directors, Innovation Managers, Corporate venture team, and frontline staff. Build your cluster startups in line with corporate needs and investment strategies.
Build a World-Class Cluster Startup Strategy
Learn from the best innovation clusters in the world. Use best practice. Establish a world-class cluster startup strategy.
Create Value for Both Corporates & Startups
Create value for both corporates and startups Gain insights, and understanding but most importantly create value for both the startups (better access to funding, partners, and customers) and corporates (better access to dealflow, new tech and new business models).
Use Case: Seafood Innovation Cluster
Prior to getting introduced to the Cluster Startup Portfolio, a global seafood innovation cluster had an emergent, piece-meal approach to entrepreneurship. It had a lot of activities, but limited value and impact. Trying to build a better strategy, the cluster implemented and started working on the Cluster Startup Portfolio.
Using Strategy Tools’ digital SaaS platform, they laid out a to-scale this into a global open innovation platform. In the first step, they defined the six investment areas that truly mattered to the cluster members and key stakeholders. Second, they started mapping out startups and scale-ups – locally, nationally, and globally, that fit into those six investment areas.
Once they reached 70+ companies, a number of observations emerged, some of them creating an entirely new understanding of the state of entrepreneurship within their global innovation cluster.
This new insight led to a revised and fundamentally different entrepreneurship strategy, creating more links, more connections, and more partnerships between startups and corporates across the innovation cluster.
Problem It Solves
✓ How can our cluster develop a portfolio of relevant startups
✓ How can we map out and further develop our startups and scale-ups
✓ What does a dealflow, for our cluster look like
✓ How can we take care of the needs of our larger corporate members, while also mapping out and supporting our smaller members?
✓ How can we better connect startups and corporates
✓ How can we build an internal dealflow for our Supercluster Fund
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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