Black Innovation and Competitiveness Initiative

the black innovation and competitiveness initiative is an open, collaborative and innovative online and offline effort that fosters solutions-based approaches to 21st century community economic development. supported by three essential pillars of innovation — education, capital and entrepreneurship — the bici strategy seeks to leverage existing assets within black american communities to create new opportunities and ensure competitiveness in the global innovation economy. the bici will facilitate a new narrative to inspire free exchange of innovative ideas among community, business, government and education leaders, students and entrepreneurs, with a goal of achieving exponentially greater economic growth and prosperity throughout black america. the bici synthesizes these core components — education, entrepreneurship and capital — to broadly define the innovation economy as the economic era of the late 20th and early 21st centuries marked by radical socioeconomic changes brought about