Constant Systems' Aidan Audouy and Diane Brown drew a diverse audience for a roundtable dedicated to closing the economic development loops needed to attract their company to Northeast Ohio. Roundtable attendees had the one challenge: to learn enough about Constant Systems to determine who we know who may help Constant Systems succeed here - an experiment in viral social networking, open source economic development and the power within very few degrees of separation. In other words, among the diverse thirty-or-so folks who came together for the Excellence Roundtable, we expect to be able to connect the representatives of Constant Systems with the people they still need to meet here to succeed... customers... very specialized customers, primarily in medical-related R&D, of which NEO has many, and access all world-wide.
Aidan and Diane provided an excellent overview of Score Group, the $1 billion+ conglomerate parent of Constant Systems - bringing Constant Systems to NEO brings Score Group to NEO... that is perhaps the biggest score in this whole relationship.
But just scoring Constant Systems basing aspects of their biotechnology will be a powerful coup for NEO. As Aidan demonstrated, by showing their machine dusrupting cells, this is very cool technology offering innovative potential.
Considering the unusual subject, the participants for this roundtable were especially broad based (list will post asap), ranging from a few NEOans originally from Britain, extending X-pat greetings, to folks affiliated with medical research and universities, economic development professionals, city and county officials and the press - if this team and our networks can't close Constant Systems, no one can. Updates to post as we get them together...