Abstract
The introduction of an innovative organization like Digital Borgo in a strongly conservative context, made mostly by SMEs and few big companies, often with no relationships to each other modify their interests in collaborating and exchanging knowledge. Overcoming all limits, hurdles and an unfavorable mindset, we managed to define a corporate accelerator model that can represent a virtuous example, helping corporates, entrepreneurs, chambers of commerce and universities to collaborate to foster innovation. We are confident that in the future we will be able to say that our model has created a more connected ecosystem among entrepreneurs and innovating corporates, making Abruzzo a region where small cities and low cost of life becomes an advantage for setting up a great ecosystem for innovation and smart growth.
Highlights
Digital Borgo was born in 2013 in Pescara, Abruzzo, on the east coast of Italy, 200km away from Rome
We thought that exchanging knowledge and creating a context culturally suitable could have been the only way to pursuit our idea of innovation, of open innovation (Chesbrough, 2003)
Making Abruzzo connected with the rest of the world, developing local economy and make the region attractive for foreign investors, students, entrepreneurs and start-ups is possible only through strengthening the culture of digital and new technologies, using them as a model to transform our local economy
Summary
Digital Borgo was born in 2013 in Pescara, Abruzzo, on the east coast of Italy, 200km away from Rome. In order to do this we strongly need to get public actors directly involved in a common project: small companies often are not able to implement innovation on their own and it is often difficult to access public funds, so it is necessary to create a culture of digital innovation in collaboration with institutional actor like the Chamber of Commerce, universities, professional associations. Both education and work have to be oriented to a visionary development: in this context Digital Borgo acts as an evangelist, corporate mentor and trustworthy third party which trigs innovation and digital transformation throughout companies, institutions and universities, but we need their commitment to transform innovation into a concrete development
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