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| + | ==Anticipated Paper Breakdown== | ||
| + | #Needs/Wants for an Innovation District | ||
| + | ##Economic Factors | ||
| + | ##Social Factors | ||
| + | ##Environmental Factors | ||
| + | #Diagnosis of Houston’s Current State | ||
| + | ##How does it fulfill and not fulfill the requirements of an innovation district? | ||
| + | #Recommendations for how to achieve an Innovation District in Houston | ||
| + | ##What do we need in order to make a successful innovation district in Houston? | ||
| + | ##What would it look like? | ||
| + | ##How do we make it happen? | ||
| + | ###Specific suggestions | ||
=Resources to pull from= | =Resources to pull from= | ||
Revision as of 11:03, 20 September 2017
| Houston Innovation District | |
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| 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 |
| Copyright © 2016 edegan.com. All Rights Reserved. | |
Link to DOC: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/1FiS-fRbNWLbV2on_OETkjqzu9GIcTUoIESLe7DIVQrE/edit?usp=sharing
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
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
- Economic Factors
- Social Factors
- Environmental Factors
- Diagnosis of Houston’s Current State
- How does it fulfill and not fulfill the requirements of an innovation district?
- Recommendations for how to achieve an Innovation District in Houston
- What do we need in order to make a successful innovation district in Houston?
- What would it look like?
- How do we make it happen?
- Specific suggestions
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
- R&D in Houston
- Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:
- Networking Assets
- Gathering spaces- shared meeting spaces
- Accessibility- close proximity
- Hip vibes
- Capital Stack
- Equity
- VC
- Tax credits, government aid
- Networking Assets
