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An Interview With Debera Johnson, Founder And Executive Director, Pratt Design Incubator For Sustainable Innovation (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Today I am talking to Debera Johnson, founder and executive director of the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation. The incubator is a part of the Center for Sustainable Design Studies at Pratt Institute, which is an art, design, and architecture college in New York City. Since
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you do day to day? Danny: There’s no consistency at all. Right now we’re putting together the strategy of how we’re going to execute over the next year. So, there’s lots of consulting with the community and organizations and the board and everybody I
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Danny: We’ve got some role models, and we’re using them as poster children. For example, Stewart Butterfield created Flickr in Vancouver. Stewart is a great example of somebody who has built a company, sold it to the States, and ended up coming back to Vancouver and starting
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You fund programs and events but you don’t directly invest in companies, right? Danny: Yes. Unfortunately, we’re not allowed to do that.
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Danny: I thought that BCIC would be a better place for me to cover all the sectors, make sure the entire [entrepreneurial] ecosystem’s intact, reach all the other industries and regions. I represent all of British Columbia, not just Vancouver. There are about nine regional areas where
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Today I am talking to Danny Robinson, CEO of British Columbia Innovation Council. The Vancouver-based BCIC is dedicated to developing entrepreneurial talent and commercializing technology in British Columbia, Canada.
The Third Frontier In The Midwest: An Interview With John Glazer, Director, TechGROWTH Ohio (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: We are addressing the shortage of managerial talent by trying to grow our own talent, identifying what the traits and qualities of good managerial talent are. What do they need to know and what do they need experience in order to become great managers? Rather than
The Third Frontier In The Midwest: An Interview With John Glazer, Director, TechGROWTH Ohio (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: We think we have the rural model down. We think we’ve learned how to get this kind of work done in a distressed area, without a pre-existing infrastructure of innovation centers, private capital, population density, and major employers and research institutions. We’re hoping that what we
