Through joining SCALE.CITIES, a city becomes part of a global ecosystem of front-running cities; learns from ecosystem building experts from other cities; gets access to a growing number of cases and experiences of other cities about the above- mentioned topics; and showcases the city’s activities to a global network.
Through SCALE.CITIES, cities are introduced to solutions for diverse topics and challenges that play important roles in every Startup City. These include:
- Deploying strategies to grow a local ecosystem;
- Government as launching customer;
- Female Entrepreneurship;
- Connecting Ecosystems globally;
- Activating Corporates for your Ecosystem;
- Attracting (foreign) tech and entrepreneurial talent;
- Educating, re-educating and up-skilling tech talent
- Consequences of and commitment to new emerging technologies (AI, Blockchain e.g.)
- Establish Inclusive Growth;
- Developing Innovation Districts.
- Support start- and scale-ups scaling internationally
- How to activate more startups in your local ecosystem
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Self-assessment tool to benchmark your city, and receive suggested best practices. How do you stand as an ecosystem? What are the strengths and weaknesses? Where can you as a government play a role and how? How can you learn from other cities in this? These questions are central to the self-assessment tool, which is explicitly not a ranking of cities but a tool to strengthen the local ecosystem.