TAMPA — It’s been not quite a year since Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik outlined a multi-part plan to nurture innovation in the Tampa Bay area, and while progress since then has been promising, it’s still the "second or third inning" of a long-term effort, he said Tuesday.
"We have momentum," he said after speaking to about 400 participants at an innovation summit sponsored by Dreamit Ventures, the startup accelerator in which he invested $12 million last year. "It’s early stage momentum, (but) there is a detectable excitement in this region about where we can go in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship."
