How to Be Your Ecosystems LiaisonAnimateur Norris Krueger

How to Be Your Ecosystem’s Liaison-Animateur Norris Krueger, Ph. D, RTE Norris. Krueger@@email. phoenix. edu @entrep_thinking +1. 208. 440. 3747 Center for Management & Entrepreneurship 2018 Knowledge Without Boundaries Academy

LIAISON-ANIMATEUR? ? ? HOW TO BE A SUPER-CONNECTOR? ? ?

Feld’s Four? Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Brad Feld (book; also slideshare) • 1. Bottom-up, entrepreneur-led – Not institutions – “Leaders and feeders” • 2. Inclusive – “rising tide” policies – But also “T-shaped” (broad and wide) • 3. Rallying Point(s) – Common cause, identity, events? • 4. Long-term perspective Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

“Zero Barriers”! • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (www. entrepreneurship. org, Twitter @eship, https: //www. kauffman. org/what-wedo/entrepreneurship/zero-barriers ) • ESHIP [global event this summer] [https: //www. eshipsummit. org ] • Growing Entrepreneurial Communities [https: //www. kansascityfed. org/events/2018/growing- entrepreneurial-communities-04 -2018 and prior event: https: //www. joinsourcelink. com/summit 16 ] Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

What could UOPX do? • Identify great ecosystem builders, liaisonanimateurs • Help them, connect them • GROW them. • In EVERY community we reside – help THEM to say… “We Rise”! Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Who are we looking for? • Schadenfreude? • Or… • Mudita? Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

So… if you could build an ecosystem builder… • A GREAT ecosystem builder… • What are the ingredients? • Old school job analysis • Deep cognitive analysis (“mindset”) Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

What is different? • What is essential? What is…. Special? • • • What do rockstar ecosystem builders know? Who they know? What skills? What behaviors? What deep beliefs, mindset? Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Basic research design • Online surveys being conducted on behalf of multiple organizations: https: //www. surveymonkey. com/r/SRPZM 28 • Pilot studies completed, next phase underway • After gathering respondents’ best choice for each topic (skills, etc. ), move to Delphi stage to refine list of key characteristics. • Respondents will also complete an instrument to capture the key facets of the entrepreneurial mindset. • Key respondents will also be interviewed Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Respondent pools • Kauffman ESHIP attendees (>500) • Growing Entrepreneurial Communities (<300) • Startup Weekend organizers (>5000) • 1 Million Cups organizers (<200) Future: Global Entrepreneurship Network (>10, 000) Also… control group (eg, MT) Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Global advisory board • Partner organizations • Existing advisory board members from each subject pool and commitments from both ecosystem builders (e. g. , Marwan Jamal, Saudi Arabia) AND academic experts from OECD, EU, China and USA. Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Instrumentation • Role Characteristics: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes/beliefs, Behaviors • Modified Delphi survey: What is it that ecosystem builders know that is different/unique/important, what skills do they have, and what do they DO that in different/unique/important. We expect to end up with a list of 5 -15 crucial KSA’s, useful for training programs, etc. Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Instrumentation, continued • Mindset: Do they share the entrepreneurial mindset? What beliefs/attitudes? • Online, pretested survey of mindset dimensions (100 -200 questions) details below**. What facets of the mindset do they have? [ ] See: http: //www. oecd. org/cfe/leed/Entrepreneurial-Education-Practice-pt 1. pdf • **Mindset Instrument (scales currently included here): • • * Grit (persistence) * Learned optimism (resilience to adversity) * Entrepreneurial decision style (e. g. , effectual versus causal) * Action orientation (bias for action) * Cognitive flexibility (predicts dot connecting) * Role identity (as entrepreneur) * Entrepreneurial self-efficacy * Entrepreneurial Intent (and antecedents) and entrepreneurial background Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Selected References • Brown, R. , & Mason, C. (2017). Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Small Business Economics, 49(1), 11 -30. • Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research Network www. eernetwork. org • Feld, B. (2012). Startup communities: Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in your city. Wiley. • OECD (2013) Entrepreneurial Ecosystems & Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurship Workshop. • http: //www. oecd. org/cfe/leed/entrepreneurialecosystemsandgrow th-orientedentrepreneurshipworkshop-netherlands. htm • Stam, E. (2015). Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional policy: a sympathetic critique. European Planning Studies, 23(9), 1759 -1769. • Genome, S. (2017). Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017. Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

But how can we get started? • What can each of us do… right now? ? • TWO bonus items! Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

The “Who”: The 4 C’s? • Competent • Connected • Committed • Collegial Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

What could UOPX do? • Identify great ecosystem builders, liaisonanimateurs • Help them, connect them • GROW them. • In EVERY community we reside – help THEM to say… “We Rise”! Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Finding your stakeholders’ value propositions A primer…

Stakeholder Value Propositions • • • You have more stakeholders than you know! [http: //goo. gl/EJWw. GE ] • Start with highest leverage stakeholders – Helping liaison-animateurs makes YOU…. • • Distinctive Competence (not Core Comp) • • Want >>> Need • • Understand their “job” • • Understand their pain • • Understand their gain Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Value Proposition Canvas Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Customer Jobs • • What functional jobs are your customers trying get done? • • What social jobs are your customers trying to get done? • • What emotional jobs are your customers trying get done? • • What basic needs are your customers trying to satisfy? Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

Focus on smart mapping? • Source. Link: – Resource Navigator: https: //www. kcsourcelink. com/resource-navigator – Resource Rails : https: //www. kcsourcelink. com/blog/2017/06/13 /take-a-ride-on-the-kcsourcelink-resource-rail and – https: //www. kcsourcelink. com/docs/defaultsource/default-document-library/kcsourcelinkresource-rail-3 -web. pdf Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship SIG Center for Management & Entrepreneurship