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Optimize Land Use and Placemaking
 
Optimize Land Use and Placemaking
*flexibility, responding to market preferences
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*''Flexibility, responding to market preferences''
*Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation
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**'''Available office space/undeveloped land in Houston'''
*Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place
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**'''Availability of capital'''
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***equity
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***VC
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***Investors of all kinds
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*''Infrastructure and land as a platform for experimentation''
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**'''Flexibility of space and infrastructure'''
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**Zoning?
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*''Placemaking to achieve critical mass of real estate and commercial activity and authentic sense of place''
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**Location, location, location
  
 
Strategy as a City of Innovation
 
Strategy as a City of Innovation
*Recognize and leverage the regional innovation context
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*''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?
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**''What we currently have going for us as a city- who is here and how can we leverage them?''
***'''R&D Data''
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***'''R&D Data'''
 
***'''Patent Data'''
 
***'''Patent Data'''
*Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking
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*''Prioritize attention on city wide eco-system and development and networking''
 
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''
 
**'''Current Government benefits to improve innovation ecosystem'''
 
**What would we ideally have to attract business?
 
**What would we ideally have to attract business?
*Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity
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*''Grow and support existing innovation firms and activity''
*Manage externalities that arise
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*''Manage externalities that arise''
 
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''
 
**'''Houston's risk preparedness'''
 
**'''Competition?'''
 
**'''Competition?'''
*Adapt through cycles
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*''Adapt through cycles''
 
**'''Predictability of Houston's economy data?'''
 
**'''Predictability of Houston's economy data?'''
  
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*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''
 
*''Leverage city DNA and expertise in promoting innovation''
 
**Where is Houston at the forefront?
 
**Where is Houston at the forefront?
*Develop innovation brad as a broad identity and shared narrative
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*''Develop innovation brand as a broad identity and shared narrative''
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**How can we market the city as an innovator? How do we gain that image?
*invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture
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*''Invite others to feel and experience the innovation culture''
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**How accessibile is Houston?
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***'''Public transportation'''
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***'''Travel costs: flying, lodging'''
  
 
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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
**Networking Assets
 
***Gathering spaces- shared meeting spaces
 
***Accessibility- close proximity
 
***Hip vibes
 
**Capital Stack
 
***Equity
 
***VC
 
***Tax credits, government aid
 

Revision as of 15:57, 21 September 2017


McNair Project
Houston Innovation District
Project logo 02.png
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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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

  1. Needs/Wants for an Innovation District
    1. Economic Factors
    2. Social Factors
    3. Environmental Factors
  2. Diagnosis of Houston’s Current State
    1. How does it fulfill and not fulfill the requirements of an innovation district?
  3. Recommendations for how to achieve an Innovation District in Houston
    1. What do we need in order to make a successful innovation district in Houston?
    2. What would it look like?
    3. How do we make it happen?
      1. 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:

Factors for innovation district.png 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