Insights
It’s Time to Build
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz calls on America to reverse the inertia, stop with the excuses, and get to building things again.
Innovation in the Midwest: Entrepreneurship outside of Silicon Valley
Kara Swisher, the doyenne of technology, recently interviewed entrepreneurs in Indiana about what makes the Midwest so special (brainpower), why the rest of the country should pay attention (special knowledge of certain industries needed to solve some of the biggest...
Polish your crystal ball and gaze into the post-COVID-19 future.
Everyone's opinion of what our world will look like and work like after it is safe to come out of our homes is worthy of consideration. The only thing that is certain is uncertainty. "The only constant in life is change," opined Heraclitus; as true today as it was in...
Expansion of the Fittest
Waymaker has been hard at work expanding and tweaking services to meet your new, post-COVID-19 realities. As leaders in government, industry, and higher education shift their attention from long-range planning to immediate survival, we have been busy gathering...
Middle America Darlings
In addition to serving our clients in crisis, Waymaker Group has been working hard behind the scenes to expand and fine-tune services we know our communities will need when the COVID-19 chaos settles. Teammate Brian Kelsey’s piece on the abundance of talent in...
The Imbalance of Innovation Growth
The December white paper issued by Information Technology and Innovation Foundation & The Brookings Institution has, thankfully, been getting a lot of national attention and represents the next chapter in our country's economic history. The bad news? 90% of...
It’s Your Creatives, Silly
Setting an intentional economic development strategy and promoting the hell out of your creative industries are best practices other mid-markets can learn from. While neither Austin nor Nashville are perfect, both cities took early leaps into investing in talent...
No Risk, No Economic Impact
We're in conversations right now with some cities struggling to determine whether or not investments in the innovation economy are too risky, or if the change in patterned behavior will be too disruptive. Some cities struggle with competing political interests. While...
Inclusive Innovation?
The term, “winner takes all” is a common if not stale term that’s been used in the technology industry for years. While it may be an ugly reality in tech, it’s a principle that has some significantly detrimental consequences in economic development. The Brookings...
Fastest Growing Occupations
The World Economic Forum recently released a report re: the fastest growing occupations. Which rank at the top? Artificial Intelligence specialists, medical transcriptionists, data scientists, customer success specialists and full stack engineers. ...
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