Perfect conditions that spark innovation.
From engineering thriving innovation ecosystems to giving innovators all they need to go to work, we’ve got the entire innovation lifecycle covered.
Find Your Path into CIC
We support innovation from more than one angle. Whether you need a place to work, the infrastructure to advance research, a setting to convene people, or the strategic support to build programs and partnerships, we create the conditions that make progress easier.
Give your team a flexible home in an Innovation Campus
Find the right place to work at a CIC Innovation Campus, from flexible workspace to private offices and suites. Focus, meet, and grow with onsite support, useful amenities, and room to adapt alongside companies building, testing, and shaping what’s next.
Set up research and development
with less operational drag
CIC Labs and Innovation Campuses help science and technology teams spin up faster without building a lab from scratch. Get specialized space, shared resources, and operational support that reduce overhead, all within a broader innovation environment with business support, programming, and potential partners close by.
Host events and meetings in a setting connected to innovation
Host meetings, workshops, panels, launches, investor sessions, and gatherings inside CIC campuses built for ideas in motion. From focused conversations to larger events, you get a professional setting with a stronger context than a standard rental space: innovation, entrepreneurship, science, and business-building close by.
Create structure that connects people and ideas
CIC Catalyst helps organizations turn innovation goals into structured programs, partnerships, and participant engagement. From market opportunities to community needs, Catalyst brings CIC’s ecosystem-building experience to help create clearer plans, stronger participation, and more useful outcomes.
Turn local potential into a
connected innovation community
CIC helps communities build stronger innovation ecosystems through Catalyst services, campus partnerships, programming, and ecosystem activation. We connect public, private, academic, and civic partners so the right people can find each other, build trust, and turn shared opportunities into progress.
Campuses for building.
Catalyst for what surrounds it.
Some innovation needs a physical home. Some needs the right program, partner, or structure. CIC works across both, creating campuses where innovators can do the work and Catalyst services that help organizations boost the ecosystems around them.
A home for work, research, and connection
CIC Innovation Campuses give people and teams the space, support, and flexibility to work in changing conditions. From flexible workspace and private offices to labs, meeting rooms, and event spaces, our campuses are built to make day-to-day work easier.
Building the systems innovation depends on
CIC Catalyst helps organizations design programs, form partnerships, and strengthen the relationships that make innovation ecosystems more useful. The work can include advisory services, program design, partnership development, and ecosystem activation.
Innovation is too crucial to be accidental.
CIC is built around the belief that innovation needs more than good timing.
We choose locations where talent, research, capital, and opportunity can meet. We design campuses that make it easier to focus, adapt, connect, and grow. We bring in partners, programs, and expertise that add real value to the people and organizations working around us.
That same intention shapes our advisory, partnership, and ecosystem work. CIC helps organizations build the programs, structures, and relationships that give innovation more room to take hold. From the blueprint of a campus to the people in the room, CIC is designed to make innovation less dependent on chance.
Watch our Founder and Executive Chair Tim Rowe discuss the ideas behind CIC and other innovation initiatives.
Places with Purpose
CIC Innovation Campuses are designed for the daily work of building, researching, meeting, and growing, with flexibility and support built in from the start.
Connections with Intent
From campus life to Catalyst programs, CIC helps bring the right people and organizations into closer reach of each other.
Expertise in Motion
Since 1999, CIC has worked with entrepreneurs, companies, institutions, and public partners to build ecosystems where innovation can grow and sustain.
See For Yourself Why So Many Organizations Thrive at CIC
A Global Platform with Local Roots
Since 1999, CIC has worked with entrepreneurs, companies, institutions, and public partners to build places and systems that help ideas make it out of the room and into the world.
Today, CIC operates across North America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, with spaces and services shaped by the people, industries, and opportunities in each market. The work is local by design, but connected by a global perspective on how innovation ecosystems grow.
The first CIC opens in Cambridge, MA. More than two decades of experience building environments for innovators.
Entrepreneurs, startups, scale-ups, enterprises, institutions, and ecosystem partners have worked with CIC.
Events, programs and gatherings each year that help people meet, learn, share ideas, and build useful relationships.
Capital raised by companies that have built, grown, and connected through CIC.
Find a CIC Location Near You
Explore CIC campuses across North America, Europe, and Asia. Each location is shaped by its local innovation ecosystem, with spaces and services designed to help people work, research, gather, and connect.
North America
BOSTON
CAMBRIDGE
PROVIDENCE
PHILADELPHIA
ST. LOUIS
Europe
BERLIN
ROTTERDAM
WARSAW
Asia
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