Defining Innovation Districts
Zip codes to compare for "Innovation Districts" Detroit (Quicken Loans 48226, Henry Ford Health Sys (48202), Wayne State (48202), "downtown and midtown", Kresge Foundation (donor), Invest Detroit (Community Development Financial Institution), American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute 48216) Philadelphia (,Comcast Innovation and Technology Center 19103, UPenn 19104, Drexel 19104, Univ. City Sci Center 19104) St. Louis (Cortex 63108, Wash U 63130, St. Louis U 63103, Barnes Jewish Hospital 63110, CorTex West Development Corporation, )BioGenerator 63108 "St. Louis will clustering five innovation centers, with the purpose of generating 'collision points" between smart people." Danforth founded BioSTL Coalition (p. 15) Seattle South Lake Union (Amazon 98109) See Vulcan Real Estate (Paul G. Allen) ; Univ. of Washington medical research campus 98109 Cambridge, MA (Kendall Square 02139, MIT 02139, Cambridge Innovation Center 02142) Boston (South Waterfront) Babson College 02210 & Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systens 02210, Mass Challenge 02210, District Hall 02210, GreenTown Labs (moved to Somerville in 2013, 02143), Battery Ventures 02210 http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/01/10/rents-soaring-city-innovation-district/nqeKNcRiLJiyjKEEGog8GP/story.html Arnault Morisson book titled "Innovation Districts: a Toolkit for Urban Leaders" San Francisco Mission Bay Brooklyn Navy Yard (Carnegie Mellon Integrative Media Program) TMC one of several "leading edge innovation districts" (p. 14) Chattanooga (Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, Lyndhurst and Benwood Foundations (funders), Univ. of Tenn at Chattanooga 37403, The Enterprise Center 37402, Edney Innovation Center 37402, GigTank (program of the Company Lab 37402) Fort Worth (Sundance Square 76102, near medical center Cook Children's 76104, JPS 76104, Harris Methodist 76132, Baylor Scott 76104, HCA's Plaza 786104, Moncrief 76104) Oklahoma City audit slides: http://www.okcinnovation.com/Websites/okcid/files/OKCAuditDeck_revised4-28reduced.pdf
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| Title | Defining Innovation Districts |
| Author | Anne Dayton |
| Series | Entrepreneurial Ecosystems |
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"Innovation Districts can grow better and more accessible jobs at a time of rising poverty and social inequality" (p.4) "platform for regenerating adjoining neighborhoods" (p.19) "Practitioners noted the need to be purposeful in hiring, training, and supporting local talent, with the ultimate goal of giving low-income workers economically-mobile career paths with family-sustaining wages." (p. 19)
