C•CUBE
A toolkit with strategies, resources, and connections to help higher education play a supporting role in building thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems.
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Toolkit Audiences
Higher Education and its Stakeholders
Why Colleges and Universities?
Let’s be clear: colleges and universities don’t build ecosystems. But they can play a tremendous role in supporting ecosystem building by making knowledge and talent assets available, by convening ecosystem builders and other stakeholders, and simply by using their voice to lift up entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, and ecosystem support organizations.
Colleges and universities are a key part of their communities—they help fuel innovation, supply talent, and create great places to live and work. C•CUBE helps higher education professionals and their partners build on this capacity. The toolkit helps institutions understand the potential they have to convene and support the network of organizations and individuals in the community—the ecosystem—and support in setting the stage for stronger economic growth and flourishing regions.
This toolkit is primarily intended for the higher education community, across all types of colleges and universities, and all relevant roles and responsibilities within institutions.
Why Conversations?
The toolkit is designed to help you initiate and sustain meaningful conversations about ecosystem-building challenges. Here is a perspective from the Kauffman Foundation’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Playbook that we think describes well why conversations are at the heart of C•CUBE:
“The primary focus of an entrepreneurial ecosystem is to move knowledge and resources from the people who have it to the entrepreneurs who need it, and much of that transference happens through conversations with people. It is also in these conversations that we inspire possibility and action.”
Additionally, other ecosystem stakeholders may find the resources and tools available here helpful in their ecosystem building efforts, and in building connections with local colleges and universities
Joining the C•CUBE Community
Entrepreneurial ecosystem building is at its heart conversations–making the connections that bring together people and that create the foundation for relationships that help ecosystems flourish. The C•CUBE community, a LinkedIn Group, brings together higher education professionals, ecosystem builders, and their partners in a place to share experiences, ask questions, build practices together, and contribute to the field—and to C•CUBE toolkit content—on an ongoing basis. Please join us there and add your voice.