- Project
- Southeast
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Organizational Change Management
- Regional
Camoin Associates developed the Economic Growth and Diversification Plan for GO Virginia’s Region 9 in 2017, which stated:
“Region 9 should support the development and operations of strong entrepreneurial assistance programs throughout the region. It should also aim to eliminate duplication and increase collaboration while consolidating operations to obtain critical mass.”
As such, the GO Virginia Region 9 Council and its Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Working Group developed the Venture Hub concept to fill in the gaps in the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Camoin Associates and partners Catherine Renault of Innovation Policyworks and Erik Pages of EntreWorks Consulting were then retained to develop a business plan for the Venture Hub concept.
The Venture Hub’s central role is to enable connections between and among entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial support resources. A robust regional ecosystem is emerging in Region 9, and its development will be accelerated thanks to the Hub, which will provide services currently missing from Region 9’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The Venture Hub initiative’s ultimate success will be measured by multiple metrics, but its bottom-line goals are simple: to help more local people start new businesses and to help those businesses become successful in terms of jobs, innovation, and their overall contribution to the regional economy.
Services
- Entrepreneurship ecosystem assessment
- Case studies of similar types of organizations/facilities
- Business plan development
