Scale Up Ecosystems

Scale Up® Ecosystems for regional growth The new wave of broad-based economic development If more and more local companies grow more and more rapidly in your region, your economy will grow. Since 2010 we have been developing innovative methods for using entrepreneurship to drive regional economic growth. Rather than first increasing the number of new firms, we have tools that quickly increase the number of firms with new growth and then leverage that growth to create a virtuous circle of broad-based prosperity. We can do this because 10-20% of existing businesses in any region already have the ability to develop the entrepreneurial mindset, business experience, customer base and operational skills to double their growth rates. What they are lacking is an environment – the entrepreneurship ecosystem – that supports new growth trajectories. Uniquely, our time to initial, visible impact is weeks, not months or years. Scale Up Ecosystems projects have the following four core elements: -Demonstrating that growth can happen quickly -Communicating that growth broadly and powerfully within the region -Engaging regional stakeholders to support that growth -Building a sustainable local scale up project Our Scale Up team consists of top entrepreneurship professionals in the world from Babson College, MIT, Harvard, and beyond. Scale Up Ecosystems is the official affiliate of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform of Babson College Executive Education.