Harvard’s Growth Lab, 2024.
The talent and energy are here. But gaps in water, housing, and transport keep us from running faster. Fix ’em, and we’ll draw the kind of investment that stays put.
HERMOSILLO, UP CLOSE
SONORA’S NEXT FRONTIER: SEMICONDUCTORS
Assembly, Test & Packaging — the way onto the map.
Hands, suppliers, land, and rules — lined up and moving.
Patents & Innovations — Now on BI5ON Circle.
Sonora’s got the brains. Industry needs the breakthroughs. Patents & Innovations puts both in the same corral — a place for researchers to show what they’ve built, and for businesses to claim what’s next.
BRAINS
MEET BUSINESS
Public–private coordination for growth in Sonora.
Andrés Fortunato (Harvard Kennedy School) and Miguel Ángel Santos (Tec de Monterrey) show a working model to move from meeting to results — lessons proven in Namibia and put to work in Sonora. The through line: coordination, courage, and clear roles.
BI5ON LIVE #3: HARD TALK. REAL RESULTS.
ASK IT.
ANSWER IT.
GET IT BUILT.
Forums inside BI5ON Circle.
From semiconductors to clean energy, from trade to talent — the tough questions get asked here, and the right people answer.
Local doers. Global investors. One conversation, open to all.
BI5ON IS A CIRCLE OF DOERS — MAKING THINGS REAL WITH GRIT, TALENT, AND TRUST.
Fresh tracks, hard lessons, and stories from the trail:
GATE’S OPEN.
Sonora meets the world here.
BI5ON Circle is our campfire — a place to meet, trade, and get things done.
Local doers. Global backers. Ideas that move.
Pull up a chair — your say matters.
We bring folks, backing, and ideas together across the line. We build the trust it takes for big outfits to settle and for local ones to grow strong. It ain’t just growth. It’s building what lasts — prosperity shared across Sonora.
THE BI5ON CODE
1. Ride with grit. Dust and distance prove your backbone.
2. Fear’s there. Do it anyway. Fear don’t excuse you from the work.
3. Trust holds the outfit together. Without it, nothing stays tied down.
4. Stand by your word. Say it straight, then do it.
5. Doing right don’t come easy. The hard way’s the only one worth taking.
6. Every hand earns a shot. The gate’s open — what you do with it is on you.
7. A ranch needs more than one horse. One stumble shouldn’t cost the whole herd.
8. The land teaches. We listen. Disrespect the desert, and it’ll break you.
9. Break the trail. Let others follow. First through the brush takes the cuts for the rest.
10. Build what lasts. Time and weather will test it — make sure it stands.
This is the ground we stand on.
