The Next Wave of Innovation Districts
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Innovation districts are evolving to address global challenges through cross-sector collaboration and transformative solutions.
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Innovation districts
Work with us to understand how districts evolve, building on local advantages and global trends
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GIID works with innovation districts to:
Identify their unique R&D and place assets help districts be strategic in how (and where) they grow and evolve.
Undertake deep empirical analysis to clarify R&D strengths and advantages, how to transform the physical landscape to become an enabler of the types of growth.
Building on existing or GIID-developed analysis, help districts sharpen their unique value proposition, including the co-design of a vision, detailed ambitions, new metrics and measures for success.
Dedicate time to focus on core ambitions that align with macroeconomic and demographic changes, including the imperative to diversity talent, develop decarbonization solutions, and de-risk regions.
Analyze how they are currently organized including an existing governance model and specific financing strategies to support successful innovation ecosystems.
Help districts identify the best pathway to support their work, taking into consideration their time and resource constraints.
How we work with innovation districts
Practice-oriented research
Uncover your district’s R&D competitive advantages and your most pressing gaps and vulnerabilities.
Identify your place-based strengths and assets and using this analysis to create connective, inclusive and magnetic places.
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Global Network
Sharpen and strengthen the model of innovation districts with a peer-learning and educational program.
Join a collective of 46 worldwide districts where leaders come together to support one another.
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Strategic support
Work with us to develop tailored strategic support to help advance and accelerate the growth and evolution of your district—and avoid costly mistakes.
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Global Summit
Actively participate in the face-to-face events to learn and discuss the evolving model of innovation districts given changes in macro forces that affect your district.
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“Becoming a member of GIID brought immediate visibility and recognition internally as well as externally. It put us as a representative of innovation in Washington DC, on a national, and global map.”
“GIID gives us the sort of validation aspect, and not feeling like we're operating in a silo, but learning from other people and validating that we are on the right track, and we have work to do, but we've laid a good foundation.”
“We felt impact from day one: we felt confident and comfortable, very early on knowing that we're in capable experienced hands, and certainly a new unique expertise. We found a sweet spot between the ‘Think Tank’ and the ‘Do Tank’. For us, it's been really important to receive advice around opportunities and ideas to consider, but equally what we should be actually actioning and getting on with.”
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Innovation districts are key players in combating climate change, using their compact, collaborative environments to pioneer sustainable solutions and drive decarbonization.
Innovation District Partnerships
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Global partnerships among innovation districts, such as those in Oslo, Stockholm, and Buffalo, drive economic growth by fostering collaboration, accelerating innovation, and addressing shared challenges.
