Puerto Rico Innovation Challenge with Creative Startups

Strategic Initiative(s) Alignment: Access to Capital, Small Business Recovery
Type: Training/Workshop
Year(s): 2022

In collaboration with partners and funders, the Puerto Rico Innovation Challenge was designed to respond to the need to both equip creative entrepreneurs with the mindset and tools essential to business growth and expand capacity among regional economic development organizations seeking to improve educational support programs for the archipelago’s creative entrepreneurs.

Recognizing the emerging opportunity to capitalize on the country’s Blue Economy, the team focused on creative entrepreneurs with linkages to the Blue Economy, including tourism, media, regional cuisine, and environmental waste management.  

TWO SESSIONS

  • May 9, 2022 – May 27, 2022
  • May 30, 2022 – June 17, 2022

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

  • 8 mentors activated
  • 38 entrepreneurs engaged; 24 entrepreneurs “accelerated”
  • 8 economic organizations completed Educators’ Circle
  • 13 “Educators” completed Educators’ Circle

 

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