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Work with us to understand their role in the innovation ecosystem and increase their global market share

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GIID helps large and medium-sized companies

Identify strategic partnerships to gain new intel and strengthen R&D capabilities that lead to increased national or global market share.

Participate in talent growth, or upskilling, programs to build a local workforce and advance regional growth.

Engage with companies to help strengthen existing innovation district strategies and ensure their role is central and impactful.

Develop unique talent attraction and retention strategies, building on unique and combined strengths found in a district.

Advise on how to design and initiate an innovation district, building on their R&D strengths combined with adjacent R&D actors and anchors.

Grow your company by becoming a key actor of your innovation district

Strategy

What is your role in an innovation district?  Is there a value proposition to working collaboratively or leverage district assets to advance your company’s goals?

You want to:

  • Have a clear vision on why to engage in an innovation district, including the advantages and ROI when working collaboratively
  • Understand the most effective initiatives on which to spend your budget
  • Define governance and infrastructure changes needed to align company and district goals

Talent

How do we attract the best available talent in the region? How can we develop, attract and retain talent?

You want to:

  • Increase your company value to attract prized talent
  • Leverage local and regional know-how, linking up with unique talent-builders, to develop and diversify your workforce
  • Design new strategies that ensure talent stays, strengthening your competitive positioning as they grow and become part of a larger, knowledge-intensive community

Connection

How do we learn from and strategically partner with actors in the district? How do we work with institutions to leverage their evolving R&D capabilities?

You want to:

  • Define where to spend most of your time building relationships
  • Connect with other firms and institutions to gain crucial intel that inform strategies for growing national or global market share
  • Understand the value of being involved rather than just being a tenant within the district

How we work with companies

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Uncover your competitive advantages and your most pressing gaps and vulnerabilities. 

Learn of the advantages of other actors in your district—a crucial pathway for gaining crucial intel		Develop a tailored strategy to help you advance your company’s ambitions while offering global insights and analysis to save time and avoid costly mistakes Uncover your competitive advantages and your most pressing gaps and vulnerabilities. 

Learn of the advantages of other actors in your district—a crucial pathway for gaining crucial intel
Develop a tailored strategy to help you advance your company’s ambitions while offering global insights and analysis to save time and avoid costly mistakes.
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“Engaging GIID has been a game changer on how we are looking at the potential of engaging companies in our evolving district.”

Kirsten Hildebrandt

Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus

Featured resources for companies

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New Empirical Evidence: How One Innovation District Is Advancing the Regional Economy

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