Challenge: Explore how to create a living, enduring community of impact startups that go through the Blue Bio Value (BBV) acceleration program coordinated by MAZE-Impact in partnership with the Blue Bio Alliance, and funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Oceano Azul Foundation.
Resources & Process: We facilitated exploratory brainstorming sessions online with the MAZE Acceleration team to collectively envision MAZE's greater potential as an impact accelerator in a way that challenges common thinking, illuminates development opportunities for the BBV startup community, and creates excitement in the team to continue innovating.
Results: Articulation of a first collective vision of the MAZE team regarding the Blue Bio Value community seen as a nested system; Generation of insights on elements that sustain the team's motivation for this challenge, and on the unique value and role that MAZE can have within that community.
Date: January and February 2022
