📢 I'm thrilled to announce that Michigan has been selected for the prestigious MIT REAP - Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program global cohort! 🎉
👀 The full scoop: https://lnkd.in/dbhBiY2g
During my first six months as Michigan's Chief Innovation Ecosystem Officer, I spent a lot of time listening and observing. Now, we're taking the next big step in that journey: orienting towards a "Go-To-Market" strategy.
As part of MIT REAP's latest cohort, over the next two years, Team Michigan will dive into a rigorous exchange of global best practices, leveraging frameworks developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to spur collaborative conversation and action that accelerates innovation-driven entrepreneurship in the State of Michigan.
Our "Team Michigan" cohort represents a broad and dynamic group of innovation ecosystem leaders from every corner of the state. We recently returned from our first multi-day on-campus workshop at MIT, and the collaborative energy was absolutely electrifying.
A tremendous thank you to trailblazers Jim Baker, Nia Batts, Christina Drake, Peter Hill, Camille Hoisington, Rishi Moudgil, Luke Polcyn, Eileen Sellaro, Kelly Sexton, Jeffrey Jothum Smith, and Jonathan Smith for enthusiastically embarking on this project with us!
This is an "all hands on deck" approach. Stakeholders of all sorts are needed to tackle this big challenge and drive us forward into the future. No one is outright in charge of entrepreneurship.
In the coming months, we'll be convening conversations across Michigan to share best practices, exchange data, and gather insights. The goal is to ignite a movement with a shared vision and practical implementation strategy that propels Michigan into a new era of economic prosperity for all.
To me, personally, that means putting Michigan on the global map as a hub for turning groundbreaking ideas into reality: 💡-->🚀
I invite you to enter the arena with us!
Maybe you're a seasoned founder who left the state long ago but feel the tug to come home and build something new.
Or perhaps you're a sophisticated investor at a sovereign wealth fund abroad, looking for better bang on the investment buck.
Maybe you're a university student or faculty innovator with an idea that could change the world.
Or a longtime Michigander passionate about empowering our top young minds to know they can have it all right here.
Regardless of who you are, where you call home, or even if you have a tie to Michigan, we need YOUR help to make this happen! 🙌
Team Michigan stands ready to build the future by working together.
Let's go.