High Performance Regions

One of the primary missions of the institute is to encourage and develop High Performance Communities (HPCs) based on Seven High-Performance Community Action Strategies: connectivity, entrepreneurship, job growth from within, global awareness, industry clusters, inter-firm collaboration, and regional collaboration. An HPC is a place where individuals, companies, organizations, and government agencies are enabled to be fast, flexible, focused, networked, customized, and global. Completing the HPC Index provides a snapshot of a community’s readiness for innovation and technology-based development.

N2TEC is becoming the  trusted authority on effective commercialization practices and the development of High Performance Communities. We accomplish this in a number of ways:

• Building a community of practice dedicated to innovation and technology commercialization practices that is virtually linked within an enterprise level collaboration space – the N2TEC Commercialization Portal

• Partnering with organizations that can contribute expertise and resources to support our effort.

• Providing resources and educational opportunities to facilitate effective innovation, technology commercialization, and entrepreneurship

• Developing best practices, standards of excellence, and models for communities and others to emulate

View the N2TEC High Performance Community Process

View the N2TEC Technology Hardening Process