Listen to the chatter of economic development professionals or academic campus leaders, and a familiar theme emerges. It centers around a mission to encourage people from disparate disciplines or neighboring businesses to talk to each other on a regular basis.

The hope is that someone sharing lunch or a cup of coffee with a colleague from another business or laboratory might say something that sparks the Big Idea and results in a groundbreaking new technology. Or they might decide that their companies should become business partners.

Call it purposeful serendipity. It really can happen.

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