Houston Innovation District

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Link to slides with starting project breakdown: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/presentation/d/1xZFHbmokrq4PE1GqztUEsEkq_swTrR2DHTlx6KwdNwE/edit?usp=sharing

McNair Project
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
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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:

  Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/312173269_fig15_Figure-19-Key-success-factors-for-innovation-district-development

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
  • 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

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

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.

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