Innovation Districts and Community Building: An Effective Strategy for Community Economic Development?

Kayanan, Carla Maria; Drucker, Joshua; Renski, Henry

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“…The activation efforts in the San Diego I.D.E.A. District, the gradual growth of activity and expansion of services within Cortex, and the development of the Boston and Detroit innovation districts all are associated with changing population demographics within the district boundaries and in adjacent neighborhoods (Drucker, Kayanan, and Renski 2019; Kayanan, Drucker, and Renski 2022 ). Gentrification certainly is not a consequence that is unique to innovation districts, but its incidence may undermine their ability to attract potential entrepreneurs, and even more so to benefit existing residents.…”

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“…Gentrification certainly is not a consequence that is unique to innovation districts, but its incidence may undermine their ability to attract potential entrepreneurs, and even more so to benefit existing residents. Fittingly, issues of equity and displacement that compel the question of which populations within a region stand to benefit from "successful" innovation districts are starting to receive attention within economic development circles (Morrison and Bevilacqua 2019;Zandiatashbar and Kayanan 2020;Filion, Reese, and Sands 2021;Kayanan, Drucker, and Renski 2022). Funding on an ongoing basis 2.…”

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Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development

Drucker

Kayanan

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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Innovation districts have gained attention as a fast-spreading urban economic development strategy, raising numerous questions. What are their distinguishing attributes? Are they a substantive policy innovation? Are they likely to succeed in fostering innovation and economic dynamism? We propose a definition of innovation districts based on their characteristic features. Given the ambiguity of the term in practice, this is crucial for understanding and analyzing the strategy. We then evaluate innovation districts by applying theories and current understandings of the spatial and economic development aspects of innovation, entrepreneurship, and human capital, illustrating with examples from Boston, Detroit, Saint Louis, and San Diego. We conclude that the combination of components that comprises innovation districts is both new and valuable. Innovation districts present a potential pathway for advancing regional economic development goals via the pathways of innovation and entrepreneurship. We stress the importance of rigorous empirical evaluation and research regarding a variety of practical and strategic concerns.

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Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development

Drucker

Kayanan

2023

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Commuting to the urban tech campus: Tech companies’ and their elite workers’ co-production of South Lake Union, Seattle

Broyer

2024

Urban Studies

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This article demonstrates how tech professionals commuting to neighbourhoods redeveloped for their work are contributing to their transformation into urban tech campuses: gentrified districts where landscapes, understandings of place and temporalities are shaped by their praise of innovation, emotional detachment from place, and daily ebb and flow. While also resulting in displacement, othering, and the rewriting of histories and geographies, commuters’ contribution to tech-led gentrification contrasts with the emotional investment into place and the sense of permanence gentrifiers use in established residential neighbourhoods they perceive as authentic and progressively remake in their image. While concomitant, it also differs from residential new-build gentrification, as it reinforces not only middle-class norms but also the economic discourse of the high-tech industry, which co-produces these places as elite worker oases. Using South Lake Union, Seattle, WA as a case study, this article aims to contribute to a social understanding of tech-led gentrification: while recent research has focused on residential gentrifiers and on the macro political and economic forces that transform declining urban areas into so-called innovation districts, this qualitative study explores gentrification through the narratives and uses of public space of an urban tech campus’s dominant population – an elite, predominantly young, white, male commuter workforce several times larger than the local residential population.

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A Successful Model of Community Enterprise Entrepreneurship: Strengthening the Wang Doem Community in the New Normal of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Sustainable Development Goals

Ruanggoon,

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Opasvitayarux

2024

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Objective: The objective of this study was 1) to examine the entrepreneurial competencies of community enterprises in the New Normal of the COVID-19 pandemic and 2) to investigate the relationship model between Entrepreneurial Competencies and the Success of Community Enterprises. Theoretical Framework: The framework emphasized three factors, including Entrepreneurial Competencies, Internal Integration, and External Integration that influence the Success of Community Enterprises, measured through financial performance, customer satisfaction, internal processes, and learning and growth. Method: A mixed-methods approach was employed. Quantitative data were collected from 235 community enterprises through questionnaires targeting presidents of the enterprises. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were employed for analysis. Qualitative data from interviews with 27 entrepreneurs in nine Wang Derm communities were analyzed using content analysis. Results and Discussion: The research identified six key entrepreneurial competencies: opportunity, relationship, conceptual, management, strategic, and commitment competencies. Entrepreneurial competencies and Internal Integration significantly enhance Success of Community Enterprises, while Internal Integration as a mediator strengthens the total influence effects of Entrepreneurial Competencies on the Success of Community Enterprises. Research Implications: This study underscored the importance of Entrepreneurial Competencies on the Success of Community Enterprise in the New Normal of COVID-19. It suggested focusing on opportunity and relationship competencies in training programs and enhancing integration strategies. The model provides sustainable guidance for policymakers on decent work and economic growth (SDG 8). Originality/Value: This study addressed a gap in entrepreneurship research by identifying six entrepreneurial competencies that enhanced the success of Community Enterprises in the post-COVID-19 era, providing practical insights for strengthening customer, supplier, and community relations.

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Innovation Districts and Community Building: An Effective Strategy for Community Economic Development?

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Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development

Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development

Commuting to the urban tech campus: Tech companies’ and their elite workers’ co-production of South Lake Union, Seattle

A Successful Model of Community Enterprise Entrepreneurship: Strengthening the Wang Doem Community in the New Normal of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Sustainable Development Goals

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