Jim Cooper builds and interrogates the machinery of startups, innovation ecosystems, policy, and capital. Australian, but splits time between California and Sydney, working across venture, commercialization, and ecosystem design. He teaches innovation at the University of California, works with several accelerators including LARTA, Beanstalk and StartBlue, is Senior Board Advisor to Software Australia, Advisory Committee Member of Houser Labs, External Industry Advisor to the California State University Biotech program, and currently works as Cofounder & Director of Unfinished Ventures, an innovation advisory firm based in Sydney—three decades in: 300+ startups advised, mentors across a dozen accelerators (and ran one) and university innovation programs, and has a bias toward being useful; Trying to understand why sensible things don’t happen, and why the opposite usually does.