By Mark Elliott | June 7, 2016
I recently traveled to Boston's Massachusetts Institue of Technology (MIT) to attend the executive course, Platform Strategy: Building and Thriving in a Vibrant Ecosystem. The course presented The MIT / Sloan Business School's latest research on marketplace platform strategy and design. With such...
By Mark Elliott | December 18, 2015
In late November I attended the Smart City Expo in Barcelona. The conference was huge, with more than 14,000 people in attendance. I liked it's ambitious vision for participants to “Envision the present and future of cities and urban innovation.” There was a lot of representation from...
By Mark Elliott | May 5, 2015
Collabforge's Founding Director, Mark Elliott, writes about his recent time working in Timor-Leste... [caption id="attachment_1747" align="aligncenter" width="580"] The beach in downtown Dili[/caption] I just spent an amazing three days in Dili, Timor-Leste (East Timor) doing a little...
By Mark Elliott | July 16, 2014
British independent innovation charity NESTA has just released a new report, ‘i-teams: The teams and funds making innovation happen in governments around the world’. The paper focuses on the stories of 20 innovation units, teams and funds, with the criteria that each i-team is inside a...