Supercluster: Launch
This tool is used to engage key stakeholders in the very first, early strategic conversations on launching a supercluster. The Supercluster: Launch tool helps clarify expectations and ambitions within your emerging cluster project.
Supercluster: Launch
This tool is used to engage key stakeholders in the very first, early strategic conversations on launching a supercluster. The Supercluster: Launch tool helps clarify expectations and ambitions within your emerging cluster project.
Main Outcomes
Early Understanding
The Supercluster: Launch is a superb tool to create early understanding amongst first-time cluster members. While most people have some understanding of how an innovation cluster work, few, in our experience have the full detailed insights into what is needed to build a successful cluster.
Emerging Alignment
Bring together industry leaders, investors, policymakers, local governments, entrepreneurs, Professors, former CEOs, the local bank, and international partners…. And you have anything but alignment. It is absolutely critical to early Supercluster initiatives, to build alignment between many and diverse stakeholders. This is not done in any one single session, but the Supercluster: Launch is designed to create emerging alignment, to be further strengthened in upcoming sessions.
Ask the Tough Questions
Ambitions, Targets, Roles & Resources, Market Access, and Joint Commitments; these five areas are explored in-depth in the tool. In total, the tool provides more than 15 questions to discuss and clarify. Bring the key partners together, and invest the time to fully ask, explore and discuss these questions in your early cluster development phase. (Hint: Joint Commitments is where everyone is lacking… ).
Use Case: Local Innovation Cluster
A local supplier network wanted to start a local innovation cluster. Once they got started, their ambitions evolved into creating a major, international Innovation Supercluster. Having no relevant experience with cluster projects, the group acted more like a transactional supplier-customer network, rather than a true collaboration platform.
Using the Supercluster: Launch helped them understand the five areas and really dig into some new and challenging topics.
How would we ensure buy-in from the Board of Directors? Short-term and long-term commitments? A cluster business model? Our shared ambitions? These were just some of the most challenging questions we dove into, and they had a hard time trying to answer together.
This session led them to reevaluate their cluster idea. After several weeks of further discussions, they decided to push ahead, but with lower ambitions (initially), and a very different operating model than first expected. Today the cluster is developing nicely, but building a bottom-up strategy, rather than an overly ambitious high-risk venture that they first imagined.
Problem It Solves
✓ How to get started on a Supercluster
✓ How to engage key stakeholders in the very first, early strategic conversations
✓ How to clarify expectations and ambitions within your emerging cluster project
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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