TractorBeam: Rural Economic Equity Accelerator is an Open Innovation project aimed at co-creating scalable, rural-led solutions to achieve economic equity in Rural America.

Rural Economic Equity Accelerator

• Purpose: We aim to collectively create and share scalable, rural-led solutions that nurture the future of sustainable rural economies.
• We aim to eliminate rural opportunity gaps and income disparities by scaling effective solutions across the USA.
• Disparities create division. The wider the disparity, the greater the divides. TractorBeam sees rural economic equity as the only path to safeguard the future of our democracy.

An Open Innovation Ecosystem for Rural Economic Equity

The vision of TractorBeam is to build an engaged, Open Innovation ecosystem for rural economic equity focused on three areas of impact: Rural Tech Talent, Rural Entrepreneurship, and the Rural Creative Economy.

The Open Innovation model embraces collaboration, creative solutions, and inclusivity by involving various stakeholders and enabling shared learning and growth.

By pooling resources and knowledge from diverse sources, TractorBeam aims to create a dynamic ecosystem where innovation and creativity can thrive to address rural economic equity challenges.

The Open Innovation process will include:

Click the triangle icon ‣ to expand those sections

Rural Innovation Lab

Through Open Innovation, we would co-create:

Exponential Rural Capacity

Accelerator Programs

Nationwide Rural Impact & Analysis

Impact Areas for the Future of Rural Economies

Rural Tech Talent