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Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development | Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development | ||
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| + | ===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 | ||
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| + | Optimize Land Use and Placemaking | ||
| + | *flexibility, responding to market preferences | ||
| + | *Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation | ||
| + | *Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place | ||
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| + | Strategy as a City of Innovation | ||
| + | *Recognize and leverage the regional innovation context | ||
| + | *prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking | ||
| + | *Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity | ||
| + | *Manage externalities that arise | ||
| + | *Adapt through cycles | ||
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| + | Build the City's Innovation Brand | ||
| + | *Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation | ||
| + | *Develop innovation brad as a broad identity and shared narrative | ||
| + | *invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture | ||
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**Networking Assets | **Networking Assets | ||
***Gathering spaces- shared meeting spaces | ***Gathering spaces- shared meeting spaces | ||
Revision as of 14:06, 21 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
Contents
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:
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
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking
- flexibility, responding to market preferences
- Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation
- Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place
Strategy as a City of Innovation
- Recognize and leverage the regional innovation context
- prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking
- Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity
- Manage externalities that arise
- Adapt through cycles
Build the City's Innovation Brand
- Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation
- Develop innovation brad as a broad identity and shared narrative
- invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture
- Networking Assets
- Gathering spaces- shared meeting spaces
- Accessibility- close proximity
- Hip vibes
- Capital Stack
- Equity
- VC
- Tax credits, government aid
- Networking Assets
