How Boston is becoming the best place in the world for BigCo/startup/

academic interaction

@ScottKirsner @BostonGlobe

@Innolead #transform2016

This is a sales pitch.

Here’s why you need to be in Boston, if you’re running a

large company anywhere in the

world and innovation matters to you.

Boston is the place where the

future happens first.

Telecommunications happened here first.

Instantly shareable photography happened here first.

Movies in color.

Augmented & virtual reality.

5.

The first videogame, Spacewar!

Robots for the home, warehouse, battlefield, factory.

BigCosAcademia

Startups We are here.

• Higher percentage of residents with advanced degrees than any other state.

• Massachusetts has been the #1 state on the Milken Institute’s Science & Technology Index since 2002.

• Twice the patents per capita than the U.S. average.

http://qz.com/498534/these-25-schools-are-responsible-for-the-greatest-advances-in-science/

Which state has the most universities on this list?

http://bit.ly/bostonmap

45+ places where startups + BigCos collaborate, or where BigCos do R&D or open innovation.

Just one example: Target’s Food + Future coLab

http://foodfuturecolab.ideo.com

Unlike Silicon Valley, which largely mocks Global 1000 companies that set up outposts there as “wannabes”, Boston welcomes them.

Here are the ways you can plug in: http://bit.ly/howtoplugin

(You’re invited to add to the list…)

Bos ton i s where en t repreneurs , academic researchers, and Global 1000 companies come together to solve hard problems and build the future.

Where we can do better: 1. Who are the “human APIs”? 2. How do we spread the word? 3. Who is collecting data & impact stories? 4. Connecting BigCo’s to share best practices

Thanks! Your comments?

— @ScottKirsner sk@scottkirsner.com