1: Launching my show: "Where Innovation Happens"

For the past 27 years, I’ve been building and operating places where innovation happens: hubs housing hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of startups at the heart of their cities’ innovation ecosystems. On this channel, I will share what I’ve learned and introduce the people shaping startup ecosystems around the world.I’m the founder of Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), and I also co-founded LabCentral and MassRobotics. Each is the largest of its kind in the world. Over the years, I’ve worked on major innovation hub projects in the United States, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, and beyond — and I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about what makes startup communities thrive.On Where Innovation Happens, I share what I’ve learned and introduce you to some of the extraordinary people building innovation ecosystems around the world. You’ll see inside leading innovation hubs, hear from the people who run them, and explore ideas about startups, cities, real estate, research, community, and the environments that help innovation grow.This first episode, Session 1, is a solo introduction: who I am, why I’m starting this show, and some of my core thinking about innovation hubs. This episode is just an intro to my work, and is a little over 10 minutes. My fourth episode, called "Innovation Meccas", comes in at just under 40 minutes. You can think of it as an expanded version of this intro. It goes into all of these topics more deeply.If you care about entrepreneurship, startup ecosystems, or how to build stronger places for innovators in your city or country, I think you’ll enjoy it.