Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building
for
Regional Governments

Learning from and connecting with strong entrepreneurial ecosystems such as in Israel or Boston can help regional governments, as well as universities and other regional organizations, in strengthening their own entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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For regions around the world, we offer "Global Connectivity": analyzing the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem, identifying strengths anchors as well as weak elements and building a multi-year plan that will strengthen these weak elements by global connectivity to strong ecosystems such as Boston and Israel.

​The service does not end with a plan. The plan is just the beginning for its execution, led by A2E Partners in conjunction with client's team, maintaining continuous feedback loops between strategy, plan and execution.
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A2E Partners, a boutique consulting firm, is uniquely positioned to offer such services:
  • ​Wide and deep knowledge of the Israel & Boston Innovation & Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Startups, Accelerators, Investors, Universities, Regional and National Government, Service Providers and Corporations.
  • Other relevant ecosystems include France, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden and Melbourne (AUS)
  • Complete independence enables win-win, unbiased relationship with all elements of the ecosystem described above.​
  • Multi-sector expertise in domains such as IT Infrastructure, Cyber-Security, Sustainability, Automotive, Industry 4.0 & Industrial IoT, AgTech, FoodTech, CleanTech and more.

Client Region Profile

The typical client region will be a government of a large metropolitan area (typically 2M - 6M people) with a reasonable entrepreneurial ecosystem that is not as strong as the leading regions in the world, and has the desire to initiate game-changing, high impact projects.
Other organizations, primarily regional universities, can act as a proxy for the regional government.

Client Requirements

Client region requirements would be planning and executing a high-impact, game-changing project that could have one or more of the following characteristics:
  • Position the region as a global leader in a specific sector
  • Aligned with regional economic development strategy
  • Strengthen a currently weak element of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (e.g. presence and density of large corporations)

Solution Description

While each project is defined between A2E Partners and the client company, a typical engagement will have these stages, for example:
  • Refine Strategic Objectives
  • Build a theme-specific plan
  • Execution
  • Continuous feedback loops: Strategy, Plan & Execution

Benefits

There are numerous benefits to our clients; among them:
  • Immediate access to a vast resource of entrepreneurship and innovation
  • No need for long-term commitment, staff hiring etc.
  • Minimal overhead of client's team
  • ​Challenges & Opportunities discovered through the process are reflected back to the strategic objectives and the innovation plan