*Publicly traded firm data – R&D expenditure (Hira)
==Pipeline==
*Houston Innovation Assets – Tables (What IT companies’ do we have. Patent, publicly traded firms)
*Community Building: Networking organizations, entrepreneurship clubs, etc.
*VC Firms in Houston – (Vc, exits, startups Adrian)
*VC deals
*Annual average VC investment
*Exits
*Companies that receive VC Funding
*Total funding of current startups
*University students (Hira)
*NSF grants, NIH grants, clinical trials, (Hira)
*SBIR grants/ companies (Abhi)
==Core Focus==
*Data: Financial/ Impact on the following industries. City level data the econ activity on these industries. (Diana, Dallas Federal Reserve, City of Houston State of Texas)
*Basic framing stats of the city
*Oil & Gas
*Med Center
*Space
== Opening the city up for testing technology ==
*Current example by a different city.
*Examples of technologies, tried elsewhere (Sweden, Volvo and their trucks)