BILL KERR: I think it applies most to companies where technology is going to be the central thing that shapes their company’s future. BILL KERR: Well, a third and growing way that companies attempt to pull insights from places or inspiration from places or at least kind of prod the executives to see further out as to how their industry may unfold is through what are called often immersions, where you bring an executive team over to a talent cluster. CURT NICKISCH: There’s a very little known story that Bill Gates flew out to Boston to make an offer to buy a technology company here, because he thought that Washington wasn’t going to be a place – the Seattle area wasn’t going to be a place – where he could grow Microsoft and that he needed to be based in Boston.