Overview

Strategy 6: Expand Entrepreneurship and Innovation Services

Team Leads:

Jeff Smith
Andrew Henry

Team Members:

Barb Fails
Beany Tomber
Ben Bakken
Bryan Ritchie
Bunmi Akinyemiji
Camron Gnass
Charles Hasemann
Chris Holman
Chris Stikney
Denise Peek
Fathy Shetiah
Hugo Braun
Kapila Viges
Karen Bantel
Kevin Lavery
Mitch Tomlinson
Rob Fowler
Ross Emmett
Shawnee Vickery
Susi Elkins
Tom Donaldson
Travis Stoliker

Leap Staff

Miche Suboski

This effort will build on the existing entrepreneurship initiatives in the region to expand their scope, coverage, and impact. Leap, Prima Civitas, the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce, Capital Area Michigan Works!, and other local economic development entities will work to expand existing entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives and create new ones.

Expand Entrepreneurship and Innovation Services

Leap will build on the existing entrepreneurship initiatives in the region to expand their scope, coverage, and impact, by working with other local economic development entities to expand existing entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives and create new ones. We will cultivate a culture and spirit of creative entrepreneurism throughout the region by promoting attitudes that are supportive of entrepreneurship. We will initiate and expand entrepreneurship training and opportunities throughout our regional education system, and create and support programs that focus on innovation to create a culture that celebrates learning and ideas. We will expand incubator opportunities into other communities in the region.

Primary Areas of Focus:

Cultivate a Culture and Spirit of Creative Entrepreneurism throughout the region that breeds, attracts, and cultivates entrepreneurs by promoting attitudes that are supportive of entrepreneurship and mentoring entrepreneurs.

Initiate and expand entrepreneurship training and opportunities throughout our regional education system, from local school districts to colleges and universities. Create and support programs that focus on innovation – creating a culture that celebrates learning and ideas.

Expand incubator opportunities such as the new Technology Innovation Center in East Lansing into other communities in the region.

Strategy News

GLN Strategy Chairs give a year end update

by Sara Graham

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Greater Lansing Next Strategy Chair Update from Leap, Inc. on Vimeo.

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Change is Inevitable - Let's make the most of it

by Miche Suboski

Thursday, December 30, 2010

This article from the Lansing Bureau of the Free Press... We've got to think, act positive .... is an interview of our new Gov as of Saturday. Dawson states in the very beginning, "... it's fair to say that most Michiganders care less about the words used to define the mission than they do about results." I love this!!! My family has been a part Michigan at least since the mid 1850s (when the population of the state was only around 400,000). Some of us poor,...

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reWorking Michigan from WKAR

by Sara Graham

Thursday, December 23, 2010

WKAR story on BOOST Greater Lansing winner Jon Priebe and Citadel Defense Technologies and Leap, Inc.

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Definition of an Entrepreneur

by Miche Suboski

Saturday, December 18, 2010

I've been in the game of running a business for years. I also got into being a Entrepreneur Support Professional (ESP as I call us) before it was trendy. Now-a-days everyone is an Entrepreneur or Entrepreneurial or is an ESP. (I read the other day that one of the top 10 words used in resumes is Entrepreneurial. It's just cool.) I'd like to offer up an interpretation of Entrepreneur and flavor it a bit like Jeff Foxworthy might if he were from Lansing instead of the...

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The Controversial 2 Minute Pitch

by Miche Suboski

Thursday, December 16, 2010

It's too short! It goes by too fast! You can't fit it all in! This is a common chorus I hear when I ask what people think of the Boost events. Being real, if you can't be compelling about your business in two minutes, you're in trouble anyway. The point of a pitch this short is to tell your audience enough to want to know more (get a coffee date or a dinner date) and to NOT convey anything that would want them to totally discount you or your idea. Thi...

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