Driven 2 Educate

The Office of Innovation in Rhode Island is a unique collaborative environment in that it partners with the Governor's Office and with the Rhode Island College in order to bypass Red tape (whenever possible) to accelerate growth in 3 different Innovation Clusters: Education, Government and Technology. Specifically the Education Cluster is involved with putting together multiple agencies in order to support, develop and grow education innovation within the state. Daniela and her team have an open communication and collaborative approach to innovation work.  They encourage and seek avenues for information sharing within the community, across the state and the nation. She sees her office as a harbor or switch master by acting as the connector to reach goals and even more importantly, to seek out new goals and plans for future change, not yet discovered. Daniela provides an overview of Clusters and how they serve to spur growth in respective areas. She exampled Silicon Valley with Tech Start Ups and St. Loui