Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston

Go through patent data, find people with patents
Find people who have done R&D work
Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data
- Find their needs
- Turn it into some sort of office space requirement
- Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like

Tentative Schedule

McNair Project
Houston Innovation District
Project Information
Project Title	Houston Innovation District
Owner	Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe
Start Date	9/20/2017
Deadline	10/27/2017
Primary Billing
Notes
Has project status	Active
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Week 1: Prep and understand need; research Houston and what it already has

Week 2: Analyze data on Houston as a whole. Diagnose need. Begin writing final document's section about current state of Houston

Week 3: Identify ways to fill need. Strategies for pulling together innovators. Begin writing final document's section about possible solutions

Week 4: Synthesize data and research to form coherent suggestions

Week 5: Final analysis of data. Finish paper.

Anticipated Paper Breakdown

Needs/Wants for an Innovation District
1. Economic Factors
2. Social Factors
3. Environmental Factors
Diagnosis of Houston’s Current State
1. How does it fulfill and not fulfill the requirements of an innovation district?
Recommendations for how to achieve an Innovation District in Houston
1. What do we need in order to make a successful innovation district in Houston?
2. What would it look like?
3. How do we make it happen?
  1. Specific suggestions

We would ideally have data about: