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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

Undertake a regional, state or national R&D analysis to identify areas of outsized strength and potential.

For a specific district, identify their competitive advantages and their most pressing gaps and vulnerabilities.

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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 45 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.”

Kerstin Hildebrandt

VP Research Administration, Children's National Health System

“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.”

Caroline Skuncik

Executive Director, I-195 Redevelopment District

“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.”