Scale Up^® Ecosystems

The new wave of broad-based economic development^[1]

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 world-class entrepreneurship practitioners and academics from Harvard, Babson, Columbia, and beyond. with have decades of successful operating experience growing companies and economies.

Scale Up Ecosystems is the official affiliate of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform of Babson College Executive Education.

^[1] Scale Up® and Scalerator® are trademarks owned by Daniel Isenberg and used by Entrepreneurship Policy Advisors and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform under the terms and conditions of a commercial license.