Spearheaded by Marquette University president Mike Lovell, the Greater Milwaukee Committee’s Innovation in Milwaukee initiative (MiKE) is exploring the potential in measuring what is generally considered to be an intangible quality — innovation. As the Milwaukee Business Journal has frequently written, "innovation" may be a near-constant business buzzword, but it's not the easiest to define. Indeed, we've tried. But MiKE is exploring a specific set of measurements, which form an "innovation index" meant to make the concept more concrete.
