Governments
Governments draw connections between people, places, and ideas, and create infrastructure that integrates districts with their surroundings
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Governments
Governments draw connections between people, places, and ideas, and create infrastructure that integrates districts with their surroundings
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?
Other actors advancing innovation districts
Ecosystem builders
Accelerators and incubators, Other types of intermediaries, New kinds of anchors
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