{"id":1147,"date":"2014-10-08T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2014-10-08T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:03:27","slug":"mooc-beyond-silicon-valley-growing-entrepreneurship-transitioning-economies-professor-michael-goldberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/mooc-beyond-silicon-valley-growing-entrepreneurship-transitioning-economies-professor-michael-goldberg\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOC – Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies by Professor Michael Goldberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mooc<\/a>I just began this week a new MOOC on Coursera<\/a>, named \u00ab\u00a0Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>\u00a0by Professor Michael Goldberg from the Case Western Reserve University.<\/p>\n

The course starts with the case of Cleveland, and how the American city did reboot its economy by fostering an innovation ecosystem. Here are my notes on the first lesson.<\/p>\n

Beyond Silicon Valley: Cleveland as a playground for innovation ecosystem building<\/h2>\n

A hundred years ago, Cleveland was one of the most important cities in the US,<\/strong> and went up to being the 5th largest city in the US <\/strong>(1910-1920) very confident, with a rising industrial production. Steel makers, chemical plants, were all there, and innovative. John D Rockefeller<\/strong> did begin his adventure as an entrepreneur in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

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By the 1950s Cleveland began\u00a0to lose it,<\/strong> maybe for being too focused on heavy industry. Progressively, big companies failed, and no new jobs were provided. \u201cWe were used to have big businesses, we forgot to be innovative\u201d,<\/em> says Dorothy Baunach, founding president of Nortech<\/a>, which advocated for a new path. In, Cleveland was ranked 61th by a ranking of Entrepreneur Magazine.<\/p>\n

Upon reconstruction, discussion tried to figure out what was missing, capital, or investable ideas,<\/strong> a debate which spans all nascent tech ecosystems. Jumpstart<\/a> was created as an agency to drive this change, with Ray Leach, a serial entrepreneur from Cleveland, offered the position of CEO.<\/p>\n

Bruce Katz, author of the Metropolitan Revolution and working at the Brooking Institution, stresses the role of the government in this renewal: \u201cit provides the kind of investment for technology, in places perceived as not so good in the new economy. There\u2019s a market failure here\u201d<\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Role of government in tech ecosystems: the case of Ohio Third Frontier program<\/h2>\n

What kind of initiatives should the government support? Programs for entrepreneurship can sometimes be too scattered and disorganised. Entrepreneur Charu Ramanathan, founder of CardioInsight, explains what kind of support she got from the Cleveland government. \u201cAbout 10% of our funding come from the state\u201d<\/em>, she says.<\/p>\n

The state of Ohio created in 2002 a program called The Third Frontier<\/a>,<\/strong> to focus resources on the strengths of the state\u2019s industries, with more coordination. $2.3bn credits were approved by voters<\/strong>, \u201cwithout it, we would have to move out of Cleveland\u201d<\/em>, says Charu.<\/p>\n

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Two key things are done by the government<\/strong> to ensure some results.<\/p>\n