Innovation shouldn't be reserved for the big

I've been involved in local politics since I was eighteen, and working in municipal life since twenty-four, in parallel with an international career in entrepreneurship and innovation.

That proximity taught me something that rarely makes it into startup discourse: even small public decisions land directly on people and places. You feel the consequences in the street, not in a spreadsheet.

So I don't accept that innovation should be reserved for the big centres or the big companies. It should be a tool for local economic development, for inclusion, for quality of life, usable wherever people are, not only where the capital already is.

Entrepreneurship and the public sector are not rivals. When they actually work together they produce better policy and real opportunities for the people who want to build. For me that isn't a side project. It's a mission.