The Ecosystem Show

The Ecosystem Show is a weekly audio world tour exploring entrepreneurial ecosystems around the globe. Open innovation depends on a thriving ecosystem, and we’re here to show you what that looks like in some very different places! Each week, guided by a small group of local stakeholders, we investigate the history, current state, superpowers and challenges of a specific region.

Diana Joseph, Silicon Valley Innovation Consultant and CEO of the Corporate Accelerator Forum, ground zero for open innovation AND Mikel Mangold of NGK Venture Labs, based in Germany.

How did we get here? We wrote a paper on entrepreneurial ecosystems with Susan Windham-Bannister, leader of the 1B fund behind the development of the famous life sciences hub in Boston. Sue’s story made us curious about other ecosystems and sent us out to explore the world!

Drop us a line on linkedin or contact us on corporaceacceleratorforum.com to give feedback or tell us where we should visit next!

This series is sponsored by the Corporate Accelerator Forum - delivering the tools, practices, cases and relationships that corporates need to succeed in open innovation

Episode 1: Los Angeles

Episode 2: New York

Episode 3: Berlin

Episode 4: Krakow

Episode 5: Chile

Episode 6: Iraq

Episode 7: Bahrain

Episode 8: London

Episode 9: Bulgaria

Episode 10: Tanzania

Episode 11: Tel Aviv

Coming soon: Pittsburgh, Prague, Ukraine and more!

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The Ecosystem Show

The Ecosystem Show: Los Angeles

June 17, 2021 • Diana • Season 1 • Episode 1

You are about to hear our very first episode recorded on April 26, 2021. We’re grateful to Dave Whelan of Bioscience LA for kicking off the conversation and opening it up to a beautiful group of ecosystem players from Los Angeles.

We heard from Adhi Sikand, Kathy Grotsch, Jim Cooper, Ryan Witt, Ann Carpenter, Arye Lipman,Jerry Schuman, Bram Frankel, Gary Olsem, Thomas Lipkin, Kristoffer Miller, and Jesus Del Valle

The collaboration in this ecosystem is really visible - you can hear how well these different stakeholders know each other and trust each other. And fair enough! They’ve been working on it very actively, in fact I led one key ecosystem event for the LA life sciences community back in 2019, you’ll hear a little mention of that.

In this episode featuring Los Angeles, we are going to learn about early stage funding for new projects, and more!

Listen in.