If you didn't know about Pittsburgh's Innovation and Performance Department before, then you should get to know it now. The department was created in February and has the goal to further innovation. Its impact could change how the city operates, and technology is being viewed as one of the primary drivers behind the innovation movement.
The group's biggest project they have underway is what has been dubbed Pittsburgh's "Innovation Roadmap," which will provide a basis to guide major innovation activities over the next three years.
Speaking Wednesday evening at anMIT Enterprise Forum hosted at Carnegie Mellon University, Lam unveiled the early work on the plan.
What's important, she said, is that the plan go beyond the latest trends and fads to provide a proactive blueprint to drive strategies.
Ideas for the project were generated this summer through a series of five roundtables that brought together about 120 stakeholders to discuss the strengths and weaknesses in Pittsburgh's innovation community.
Topics included: the maker moment, clean technology, co-working and accelerators, startups and entrepreneurs and venture capital and angel investors.Read more
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