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“You get a lot of these reports that come out from various entities and they're so generic that they could have written them about nine-tenths of Western Canada. But the Ecosystem Navigator from the Groundbreakers was clearly very local. There were enough tangible, specific things that I recognize to go, 'Oh yes, this actually knows our region'.”

“I compared it against the 100+ pages we got from a $100,000 regional impact study the provincial government paid for. The Groundbreakers Ecosystem Navigator generated very comparable outputs, found many of the same issues... but yours actually added the additional piece, identifying the need for angel investment to help move the ecosystem forward, which was a clear gap in the original study. From a value-added perspective, yours had more powerful, actionable insights than this third-party report.”

“I found the report would be a good way to ground us all, to say, 'Okay, here are some of the objective things that are necessary to move the ecosystem forward'. It would give us a common language and a common way to talk about it ... because the university is obviously going to approach it from an academic perspective, someone from a private sector company, they're going to come at it from a very different perspective. The report, in my mind, could be like a convener... a way of getting everybody on the same page in a discussion document.”