Through innovation, we help entrepreneurs, companies and cities think big by bridging the gap between the need to grow and the ability to execute.
Smart City
Development
Think Big has real world Smart City design, build and implementation experience. We analyze your opportunity to develop public and private partnerships to maximize citizen experience and city success.
Technology
Development
Need help building your technology? Entrepreneurs and companies work with our team of product strategist, designers, and engineers to design and develop your next game changing application or solution.
Co-founder
As a Service
A big challenge facing entrepreneurs is the gap between founder skill sets and the ability to execute your business model. We decode the key elements missing from your team and bring essential elements to support your success.
Innovation
Development
The need to innovate has never been greater. We can help you create the right innovation partnerships, rapidly develop innovation solutions and create an innovation road-map to help you grow.
Economic
Development
Innovation districts powered by entrepreneurs, high growth companies and reinvented large employers provide the fuel for economic growth. We help city leaders design, build and launch innovation districts.
Workspace
Development
Successful workspaces require experience based design to build not only for functionality but inspiration and productivity. It should be paired with a financially profitable plan. Think Big can help you design both.
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The Living Lab
The premise of the Kansas City Living Lab is simple. Where a “problem or challenge” exists (or one is anticipated in the future), the lab will seek out the best emerging technology solutions that can be fine-tuned, tested and ultimately validated prior to full scale commercial deployment.
These emerging technologies will come from all over the world. Likely sources will include incubators, accelerators, technology transfer programs and existing companies of all sizes. Additionally, we anticipate identifying promising technologies through citizen groups, coworking spaces, educational institutions (traditional and non-traditional), industry cluster initiatives and more.
Technology commercialization can be costly, labor intensive and slow. Building high value “industrial” internet of things applications that can modernize city infrastructure, lower operational and maintenance costs while increasing efficiency has never been more important. The Living Lab is designed to speed up this technology commercialization process, lower costs and create perfect product-market fit for all stakeholders.
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For years, people and organizations have been planting seeds of investment in the Kansas City entrepreneurial ecosystem and working to bring new businesses and economic development to the region. Now, we are seeing those seeds of investment bloom all over the city. Kansas City’s strong network of entrepreneurial resources like…
More than half of the world’s population today lives in urban settlements. By 2050 this urban population will grow to over 70% with more than 4.8 billion people living in cities. As communities deal with this massive growth, cities everywhere are challenged by congestion, pollution, crime, aging infrastructure, falling budgets…
Innovation doesn’t mean much if it exists in a vacuum. To spotlight the challenges, Kansas City innovators and area organizations making an impact, the Innovation Exchange returns in 2017 Led by Think Big Partners and Startland News, the Innovation Exchange has attracted more than 200 people to learn about and…
In March 2016, Think Big and education advocate Kari Keefe teamed up to start the KC Social Innovation Center - an impact agency focusing on the social impact from technology, future workforce initiatives, and innovations in education and learning. Think Big Partners was the chief catalyst in the Center’s formation…
