How to Build a Thriving Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Anywhere. | Antonio Lück | TEDxWayneStateU

Antonio Lück takes to the stage to share with us an idea: How to make an economic ecosystem, anywhere. He helps us identify the key players in such a system and inspires his audience to be an agent within their own ecosystem. Antonio Lück serves as the Managing Director for Endeavor’s Detroit Office. He works as a catalyst to long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs. He was previously the Director of Business Acceleration, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Venture Capital at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. At the MEDC, he directed all of the State’s early stage Financial Programs and the Portfolio Management Team in overseeing the state’s investment portfolio of over $100M comprising of for profit, emerging technology companies and research and infrastructure grants.
Antonio Lück was born in Brazil where he is a certified engineer and a licensed lawyer. Antonio served as an advisor to the President of Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná for more than five years where he acquired extensive entrepreneurial work experience and was involved in creating the Entrepreneurship Center and the Intellectual Property Office. He then moved to Detroit to pursue his MBA at Wayne State University on scholarship. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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What we learn? We can no longer act as a single organisation but as part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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What are the five key pieces of the puzzle?

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