Create Your Own Venture Studio

The venture studio model is an innovative approach to entrepreneurship that involves creating and launching multiple businesses within a single entity.

Unlike traditional incubators or accelerators, venture studios leverage their resources and experience to launch multiple businesses in a shorter time frame, thereby increasing efficiency, economies of scale, and potential for cross-collaboration.

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to establish and operate a successful venture studio in your region.

Check Your Ecosystem's Health

Science-based methodology to analyse the ecosystem you are operating in and defining system-wide KPIs to monitor or impact its performance.

• Scientifically-based Ecosystem Health Check with 8 metrics covering the startup community, the entrepreneurship support network,  social capital as well as governance.
• Balanced analysis of quantitative and qualitative assessments
• Benchmark analysis with interantional peers
• Development of recommendations for improvement

Host Your Own Ecosystem Conference

Bring DEEP's global community of influential ecosystem leaders to your city and invite your local actors to initiate moonshot collaborations for exponential growth.

• Host the DEEP Ecosystems Conference in your city & brainstorm project ideas
• Define challenges & publish a call for the most promising project ideas
• Offer a multi-week support in form of the DEEP Startup Ecosystem Accelerator in the setup of new innovation projects in all stages from incubation to scale-up phase
• Access to international partnerships & connection to world-renown entrepreneurs

Setup an Innovation Sandbox

An innovation sandbox allows the co-creation of innovative solutions by technology providers and procurers with the potential involvement of users or resource providers in a multi-stakeholder environment.

Sandboxes are a very early-stage tool to explore the feasibility of new solutions and create “acceptance” among potential procurers and users prior to a potential procurement process. The innovation sandbox is delimited from the real market environment and operates under multiple safeguards. An innovation sandbox is open to host multiple solutions and requires solution providers to iteratively adapt their solution to the needs discovered in the process.

Consult Government with an Entrepreneurial Advisory Board

An Entrepreneurial Advisory Board brings together top entrepreneurs from your vertical and region to foster innovation, share insights, and drive the strategic development of your local startup ecosystem. Below is a comprehensive framework to help you establish and manage this board effectively.

• Target Profile:
  • Leading entrepreneurs active in your vertical and region.
  • Successful startup founders, corporate C-level executives, venture capitalists, and representatives from industry-leading organizations.
• Selection Criteria:
  • Reputation, thought leadership, network strength, and a demonstrated commitment to regional innovation.

Become an Innovation Scout