Overlapping circles are a common convention for illustrating how the players in an innovation network are connected. It's a simple way to show how investors, academic researchers, private sector scientists, policymakers, and other constituents all play a role in driving science and technology progress.
But there's a reason innovation strategists often use a more complex metaphor—an ecosystem—to describe such a community. As in nature's ecosystems, no single actor in an innovation system functions in isolation. If one member is weak, everyone suffers.
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