INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM LEADERSHIP ACADEMYPractical leadership for places building an innovation economy — wherever you're starting from.
The Innovation Ecosystem Leadership Academy is a practitioner programme for the people building innovation ecosystems, districts and corridors — the ones responsible for turning assets, institutions and ambition into compounding advantage. We're finalising the programme now, with recruitment for the first cohort opening this autumn. Join the waitlist to help shape it and hear first.
Delivered by Recurve with the UK Innovation Districts Group.
WHY THIS, WHY NOW?
Several places have the ingredients. Few have the architecture.
Across the UK, the raw materials of innovation-led growth are already in place: universities, anchor institutions, investable propositions, civic ambition. What holds places back is rarely conviction — it is the connective tissue between those ingredients, and the leadership capability to build and hold it.
Innovation districts and corridors compound only when their leadership is deliberate about governance, strategy, investment, talent and curation. That capability can be learned. This Academy is how.
Three seats at a shared table
WHO IT IS FOR
Innovation ecosystems fail when their partners work to different scripts. The Academy is built for the three groups who have to co-author the place together.
Local & regional government
Combined authorities and councils setting the strategy, convening partners and holding the long-term commitment.
Universities
Research and anchor institutions turning knowledge assets into jobs, spinouts and place value.
Private-sector developers
The investors and developers building the physical and commercial fabric an ecosystem needs to grow.
HOW IT WORKS
Diagnose, then build
Start with a straight read on where your place stands.
Our free Innovation Ecosystem Self-Diagnostic asks twenty questions across the five leadership levers and returns a maturity scorecard and your stage on the six-stage journey, tailored to your role.
The Academy is how you act on the analysis: a cohort programme that builds the leadership to move your ecosystem to its next stage.
DELIVERED IN PARTNERSHIP
Recurve & the UK Innovation Districts Group
The Academy is delivered by Recurve in partnership with the UK Innovation Districts Group, and co-facilitated with Emma Frost, Chair of the Group — combining Recurve's place-leadership practice with the UK's leading network of innovation-district practitioners.
JOIN THE WAITING LIST
Be first in line
Recruitment for the first cohort opens this autumn, ahead of the first session over the winter, with places limited. Waitlist members get first access, an invitation to the free self-diagnostic when it launches, and input to the programme's design.
No commitment — we'll only be in touch about the Academy.