Case study · Real estate
Sizing a self-sustaining innovation district from the evidence
- Client
- Work I led at Aretian
- What they keep
- The analytical workflow and the district strategy.
01 · Problem
A major European economy needed an evidence-based account of where its innovation network was strong, weak, and worth investing in.
02 · Approach
Economic-complexity and smart-specialization analysis, university and institution network mapping, and urban-form accessibility analysis, feeding an innovation-pipeline brief and a district design.
03 · What shipped
A custom client database, a ranked target-industry shortlist, and a five-cluster district design.
20,000
The result
Target clusters identified and a ~20,000 knowledge-worker critical-mass threshold established for a self-sustaining district.
04 · What they keep
The analytical workflow and the district strategy.