Implication of mapping and GISci techniques for economic development capacity analysis (the case of innovation district)

Keywords: Innovation District, GISci techniques, Capacity Analysis, Conceptual Framework
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Sunday
Session Start / End Time: 2/27/2022 09:40 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/27/2022 11:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 4

Abstract

Innovation districts as a place-based, economic development strategy aim to concentrate the actors, entities, and infrastructure considered essential to process and product innovation. Such plans need to be built upon an understanding of the local capacities that while support a sustainable growth of innovation districts, but also save communities against possible ripple effects. This literature review aims to create a new conceptual framework for understanding the varying success in Innovation Districts in major twelve domestic and eight international cities and use this framework to survey analytical techniques used for pre-development planning reports, analytical efforts and studies for these cases. This review breaks down categories of analyses beyond the three different major domains; Economic, Physical, and Networking. Three other categories are found to be influential in Local Talented Labor Pool, Tolerance, and Leadership Capacities, all of which contain their subsets of information as well. Expanding beyond the typical subsets of information allows for a more detailed analysis of understanding the success or failure of Innovation Districts. Our research will summarize the GISci techniques as well as mapping and geospatial analyses used in the aforementioned planning reports, analytical efforts and studies. The findings of our study could be used as guidelines for the use of GISci techniques, mapping and geospatial analysis for the scholars and economic development analysts who are involved in capacity analysis, planning efforts and assessment studies of innovation districts.