ACTION
Driving an agenda for sustaining our innovation tradition

The Collaborative's research has shown that this region's competitive advantage is its capacity to innovate and reinvent itself.  Indeed, Greater Boston has a long record of innovation spanning four centuries.  The Collaborative works to embed this story into Boston's culture at all levels -- civic leadership, schools, visitor industry, government, halls of academe-- showing innovation as the story that explains Boston's unique culture and economy.


Building on the lessons of the past, the Collaborative has initiated an Action Agenda aimed at improving the region's future economic success by sustaining its longstanding tradition of innovation. 


Drawn from the academic, business, cultural, and not-for-profit communities, The Boston Fifth Century Trustees convene several times a year to pursue an Action Agenda for addressing particular challenges to the region’s innovation economy and culture.  The Trustees are a group of 35 leaders who grasp the importance of the region’s tradition of innovation, as well as its increasing vulnerability to regional and global competition, and have agreed to work collaboratively to ensure it is sustained in the future.