Houston Innovation District

McNair Project

Houston Innovation District
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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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.

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