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100			_aDrucker, Joshua and Kayanan, Carla Maria _959489
245			_aInnovation districts: Assessing their potential as a strategy for urban economic development
260			_aUrban Affairs Review
300			_a60(3), May, 2024: p.802-834
520			_aInnovation 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.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874231173618
650			_aInnovation district, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Economic development, Anchor. _948655
773			_aUrban Affairs Review
906			_aURBAN DEVELOPMENT
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