In the ten years since those programs launched, I estimate accelerators have grown to number almost 10,000 worldwide (after numbering only 9 across the globe in 2009). As they’ve grown in adoption, they’ve also begun to show they are capable of broader impact that…

Tech accelerators are famous across tech communities worldwide — they act as platforms for founders, pipelines for investors, and laboratories for innovation itself. But few are thinking about how their impact will expand far beyond the tech community…