Governments
Governments draw connections between people, places, and ideas, and create infrastructure that integrates districts with their surroundings
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Investors
Real estate developers
Developers shape the physical landscape of districts, creating attributes of complexity, density, and mixed uses and activities
Philanthropies
Local and community foundations, along with national philanthropy, invest in innovation districts
Capital investors
Asset-rich companies, civic entities, venture capital firms and financial institutions that invest at scale in innovation districts
Who advances districts?
Ecosystem builders
A diversity of intermediaries, accelerators and incubators, and new kinds of anchors.
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Mission-driven organizations
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