​Startup Ecosystem Development Workshop

The workshop is designed for key stakeholder responsible for national, regional or city economic development - focused on economic growth via entrepreneurship, innovation, job creation and attracting investments.

This workshop is organized as a side event, one day before SLUSH. Slush brings together 15,000 attendees from 100 countries for the two-day event held in Helsinki.  ​
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Why Build & Develop Startup Ecosystems?

Dynamic startup ecosystems breed new startups that create 2/3 of new jobs, attract international talent and foreign direct investments. Network connectivity within and between the ecosystems is the single most important contributor to growth.
 
For past decade, Startup Commons have assisted national, regional and local governments with ecosystems of various maturity levels and population in US., EU and Asia - on policy making and developing solutions, services and instruments to nurture and grow thriving startup culture and startup ecosystems in globally connected world.
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Who Should Attend?

The workshop is designed for those responsible for national, regional or city economic development - focused on economic growth via entrepreneurship, innovation, job creation and attracting investments. In addition, the workshop provides practical knowledge and tools for all key stakeholders who actively take part in developing their local startup ecosystem, either from policy design, funding instrument or support services design, ecosystem management and coordination roles, as well as budgeting and capacity building.
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What will you gain?

Learn what is required to support local startup ecosystems that scale entrepreneurship and generate higher volume of good startup ventures.
  • Understanding the startup ecosystem as a concept (differences/overlaps with innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystems)
  • Having common language and terminology in use about, startups, innovation, ecosystem and Startup Development Stages
  • Required key services and iterative development balance to improve the services and knowledge in general 
  • Building common understanding on how different services contribute for the startup development, by understanding the key targets on key services
  • Balanced Development Framework and metrics. What should be measured and why?
  • How does key domains/workgroup impact on ecosystem performance
  • Tools and metrics to measure key services, organizations and whole ecosystem
  • Digital tools to measure innovation and startup development based on Startup Development phases
  • What information and data investors and big companies are looking for
  • How to connect with global digital investing ecosystem
  • Building commitment for systematic development of the ecosystem with identified key people from different organizations within the ecosystem, from both; bottom up and top down approach
  • Typical budgets and resources needed to implement and sustain the target service levels
  • Building long term thinking with effective short term execution for iteration to improve measured results and overall ROI

How to identify and build mutual understanding between key stakeholders about the current stage ecosystem.
  • Identifying current public, private and NGO organizations that are part of the local ecosystem(s)
  • Identifying and mapping current support services or resources these organizations contribute for the ecosystem as a whole and to what startup development phases those are aimed for
  • Typical metrics currently used for measuring key services and ecosystems as a whole, what information is needed and why?
  • How to identify bottlenecks and problem areas

Planning ahead: Balanced Development Framework, Defining targets, milestones and roadmap ahead
  • How to define the long term target (3-5 years)
  • Clarifying the target and measures of success
  • Setting the milestone targets per each 6 months
  • Outlining the plan for first 12 months actions, with more detail first 6 month plan
  • Setting the check points to evaluate and adjust the progress
  • Brainstorming future scenarios
  • Defining who should be responsible and agreeing communication patterns
In addition to workshop presentations and case studies, you will have opportunity to network with your global peers to share best practises and build cross border relationship.

​All participant will receive copies of all workshop presentations materials, along with startup ecosystem mapping and planning documentation and tools.
If your have any questions related to event, please don't hesitate to contact us.