Houston Innovation District
Link to slides with starting project breakdown: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/presentation/d/1xZFHbmokrq4PE1GqztUEsEkq_swTrR2DHTlx6KwdNwE/edit?usp=sharing
| 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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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
Resources to pull from
Houston Entrepreneurship has info about:
- Start ups
- Accelerators/Incubators
- Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
- Small Business
- VC
We would ideally have data about:
- Patents in Houston - Houston Startup Ecosystem > HoustonPatents.txt
- R&D in Houston
- Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:
Ideal Factors for an Innovation district
Here, I will try to break down measurable ways of understanding how an area fulfills the requirements of an innovation district
Data needed is in bold
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking
- Flexibility, responding to market preferences
- Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston
- Availability of capital
- equity
- VC
- Investors of all kinds
- Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation
- Flexibility of space and infrastructure
- Zoning?
- Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place
- Location, location, location
Strategy as a City of Innovation
- and leverage the regional innovation context
- What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?
- R&D Data
- Patent Data
- What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?
- Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking
- Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem
- What would we ideally have to attract business?
- Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity
- Manage externalities that arise
- Houston's risk preparedness
- Competition?
- Adapt through cycles
- Predictability of Houston's economy data?
Build the City's Innovation Brand
- Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation
- Where is Houston at the forefront?
- Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative
- How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?
- Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture
- How accessibile is Houston?
- Public transportation
- Travel costs: flying, lodging
- How accessibile is Houston?
A thought: Houston's key capabilities seem to be in Oil/Gas/Energy and Medicine. Can we start by portraying Houston as a leading innovator in those areas? Innovation district can start with our core capabilities
Link to Doc
Location data
- Information on largest office spaces available, and on US median income for 2000 and (estimated) for 2015 are located in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data.
- Office spaces for sale in the the zip codes listed below were compiled in "Office property listings..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Houston Startup Ecosystem\Location data. Included is acreage/square footage and address. Listings under "office space" that looked like houses were removed.
- Listings pulled from zip codes:
- 77002
- 77003
- 77004
- 77005
- 77006
- 77007
- 77008
- 77009
- 77019
- 77098
- 77030
- 77027
- 77025
- 77046
- 77024
- 77056
- 77057
- 77401
- Listings pulled from zip codes:
Pulling Yelp Data
It seems entirely possible, though against the terms of service of yelp, to pull data from Houston centered searches for things like cafe's or bars. Peter J has done some work like this before with his "Chipotle" and "Starbucks" finder webapps and is working on creating a map / pulling the data from google or yelp to have the locations of all of these points of commerce within the 610 loop.
- Note: Using yelp data (and regressing things like reviews, new businesses and locations) havard business was able to project (with 30% correlation) the economic growth on a granular scale: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-022_0bb9b749-f275-41ff-899c-afd9109568ee.pdf
- We may be able to produce something similar but less developed using density of restaurants in houston to find entrepreneurial / growth hotspots
Educational Attainment
- For the city of Houston,
- High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 76.7%
- Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 30.4%
- For Harris County,
- High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 79.6%
- Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015: 29.5%
- Compared to the rest of the US:
- High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%
- Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%
source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,US/PST045216
