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Advancing an innovation district and seek tailored strategic support

GIID has deep experience working with specific stakeholders to enhance the growth and impact of innovation districts in their city or region

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Every year, GIID works with a select number of emerging districts to support their development while avoiding mistakes and miscalculations that can hamper progress. Specifically, we work with leading organizations, such as universities, medical institutions, developers, and governments to structure a highly tailored process based on their unique assets and specific vulnerabilities.

Unlike working with a consulting firm, engaging with GIID means that emerging districts can become part of the global community of districts—where relationships and learnings continue after our deep engagement.

What are the kinds of support GIID provides organizations or emerging districts

Deep R&D analysis

We have developed a range of methodologies to help pinpoint where your emerging districts can uniquely specialize in order to differentiate from other areas in your region or country.

Place-based analysis

Years of analyzing how assets are geography spread within your proposed district, give us the unique understanding of how to leverage land as an enabler for creating innovation ecosystems. We call this an evaluation of the “the place and innovation nexus”.

District governance & organizing for success

GIID works with local stakeholders to organize their district for success. This can include identifying strategic actors to become district partners or determining how to leverage the land to finance cross-district programs. GIID has also helped design mission driven organizations, including not for profits and companies.

Tactical urbanism and placemaking techniques

GIID has engaged multiple strategic advisors with deep experience on-the-ground in creating innovation communities through placemaking. Their work has not only transformed parks, streets and neighborhoods, they design processes that build trust with the community, ensuring they know they belong in innovation districts.

GIID can work on multiple areas of focus, listed above, creating a more comprehensive and integrated strategy for your district. A growing number of districts are asking for us to support them in this way as they the imperative in creating a comprehensive strategy and workplan.

Different ways we can engage

STRATEGY SESSIONS

INDIVIDUAL ANALYSIS

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS

Duration: starting at 3 hours and up to 2 weeks

Duration: 1 to 2 months

Duration: 6 to 9 months

We meet to understand your challenges and how we can help. Then, we come up with a specific, short-term coaching plan.

We identify one specific challenge you need help with and come up with a comprehensive, multi-dimensional approach to tackle it. You get multiple coaching sessions to learn and apply the solution.

We perform a 360º quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify whether an anchor or landowner possesses the necessary strengths and starting assets to create an innovation district. We provide a highly bespoke support plan based on very specific needs.

PRICING

We will work with you to develop a tailored strategy and proposal to determine costs

We support multiple stakeholders

Our focus is on emerging geographies that possess unique R&D assets and are considering growing a district.

Early-stage innovation districts
Individual anchor institutions
Large landowners
Multiple landowners
Governments
Developers
Development corporations

Organizations that trust us

Oak Ridge National Lab, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

The largest US government energy lab in the United States learned there were many locations in the region to develop an innovation district given their outsized innovation strengths. GIID identified which R&D capabilities would be the most “sticky” to industry, identifying the optimal location, key researchers to lead the project, and how to transform aspects of the physical landscape to facilitate collaborative innovation.

New South Wales Government, Sydney, Australia

NSW Government needed to determine how best to govern one of its strongest innovation districts in the state. GIID undertook a deep and highly detailed global scan of the strongest governance models around the world. Building on this analysis, combined with dozens of interviews with local stakeholders, GIID developed options for a new governance structure including strategies for generating revenue.

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Ohio, United States

Cleveland Clinic successfully secured state funding to advance an innovation district. With the support of GIID, the Clinic received an external audit of its unique R&D capabilities deemed particularly magnetic for industry collaboration and co-location. Through strategic engagements with Clinic leadership, a range of applied research niches were identified to elevate as part of their district. Further, GIID identified the first set of place-based investments to advance an innovation district that extends beyond the walls of the clinic.