Blog: What Works For Cities
In Downtown L.A. Resurgence, Ensuring All Residents Benefit
As downtown LA’s tech cluster continues to grow, CBAs or similar agreements offer an opportunity for the city to ensure that all residents benefit from downtown’s revitalization. Read More
Opportunity Hub’s #CodeStart Students Learning More than Tech
Atlanta-based Opportunity Hub offers entrepreneurs a pre-accelerator program, business incubator, networking events, mentorship opportunities and access to an ecosystem of investors and capital providers. Read More
Using Public Procurement for Innovative Solutions to Urban Challenges
A growing number of cities are rethinking how to shape public procurement to allow for more innovation. Read More
What Works: Philadelphia’s FastFWD Creates Mechanism for Entrepreneurial Solutions to Public Safety Issues
This What Works for Cities case study profiles Philadelphia’s FastFWD project, a two-year pilot that challenged the city’s procurement process and created a new mechanism for entrepreneurs to test their innovative solutions to the community’s most pressing social challenges Read More
Through Workforce Initiatives, Conexus Indiana Guides Cluster Development
Last year, as ICIC researched cluster initiatives in several U.S. cities for our forthcoming report Accelerating Cluster Growth: A Playbook for City Leaders, we spoke with Conexus Indiana, a public-private initiative and “the catalyst to position Indiana as the recognized global leader in advanced manufacturing and logistics.” Read More