From the framework · We're Doing This Wrong
The Ecosystem
Flywheel
Entrepreneurship does not compound because a region runs more programmes. It compounds when founder outcomes improve the conditions for the next founders — when capital, customers, talent, trust, and knowledge recycle back into the system instead of leaking out of it.
Five stages, one loop
Select a stage to see what compounds — and what most ecosystems measure instead.
Click or tap any stage. Use arrow keys to move around the loop.
The loop only turns in one direction. Break any stage — talent leaks, capital arrives too late, knowledge never recycles — and the wheel stalls, no matter how much activity sits on top of it.
Test your own wheel
Is your ecosystem turning the flywheel — or funding the scenery?
The Innovation Theatre Audit is a 12-question diagnostic that reveals whether your programmes, policies, and partnerships are building founder outcomes or paying for activity that never recycles.