Strategy.
Innovation.
Impact.
Innovation requires energy and determination, mental agility, technical capability, networks of influence, leadership, and luck – but creative endeavours need something more. At the edge of what is known possible, the entrepreneurial mindset goes deeper than skill and determination.
At the core of this way of thinking is a paradox. To drive success, innovators must be both unfailingly self-assured, and ruthlessly self-critical. Simultaneously.
Capabilities
Program Design
• Supporting policy implementation in new sectors (digital, high-tech, knowledge)
• Consultation, needs analysis, brokering and advocacy
• Experience in program implementation, monitoring and evaluation
Innovation Strategy
• Foresight and planning with start-ups, research organisations, and industries
• Supporting innovation policy formulation
• Representation to national and international leaders and executives
Commercialisation
• Enabling translation programs to increase the impact of publicly funded research
• Training, launchpads, brokering, mentoring, grant programming and venture capital
• Experience in co-founding, operating and managing venture projects