Mayor Thomas M. Menino laid out a bold plan yesterday to attract start-up companies and venture capitalists to Boston’s budding “Innovation District,” while also promoting the city’s solar energy future.
Taking a page from Cambridge, but adding a public sector twist, the mayor declared, “We will be one of the first cities in the world to have a public innovation center, a place that fosters this type of collaboration (between start-ups).”
In a speech to the Boston College Chief Executives’ Club yesterday, Menino also said he will launch “Venture Boston,” an initiative to encourage venture capital firms — now mainly clustered in Waltham or Cambridge — to move to the South Boston waterfront district.
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Author: Thomas Grillo
