Innovative
Communities and Regions
Key Trends Shaping the Next Decade....
These trends are based on research conducted by the Institute for the Future, and the findings of expert workshops conducted with thought leaders of the International Association of Science Parks, and the the Association of University Research Parks.
Global, Networked Science
Universities Transformed
The Persistence of Place
New kinds of spaces for R&D will amplify the benefits of networked innovation
New Public Agenda
New nodes of excellence, coupled with the power of the Internet, utterly transform the global map of science.
Regions Rule
Innovation policy will increasingly be focused  at the metropolitan and regional scale.
Big Science,
Lightweight Innovation
Expanded public funding for research, coupled to lean corporate pipelines, creates new frameworks for technology transfer.
The New Scientist
Transdisciplinary, socially networked, and highly mobile the transformation of the R&D labor force changes everything.
The Biological World
Biology will dominate 21st century science just as physics did in the 20th century.
SCIENCE IN PLACE
The Future of
Innovative Communities and Regions
The Institute for the Future
What is Science In Place?
A multi-year research effort at the Institute for the Future that seeks to understand the role of place in a world of global science

A consortium of economic development agencies, foundations and companies working with the Institute for the Future

An action-oriented consulting practice that works with clients to prototype next generation technology-based development initiatives
http://www.iftf.org/innovation
Builds on:
40 years of technology forecasting research

long-range scans of science technology conducted for the US and UK governments

consulting work with innovation and R&D strategists at Fortune 500 companies

research on global urbanization and mobility
SCIENCE IN PLACE 2009
Focus: Future of science and technology parks
Support of Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina

Study that began in 2008, involving four expert panels:
International Association of Science Parks (Johannesburg, 9/08)
Association of University Research Parks (St. Petersburg, FL, 12/08)
IEDC (Tempe, AZ, 1/24/09)
Online (ongoing)

What are the important trends that will shape the future for technology-based development?
20th century science was dominated by a handful of advanced powers...

...21st century science will have many nodes, connected through the movement of people and knowledge
From science powers to science stars
Personalized medicine and food
Metabolomics
co-working
pop-up labs
temporary and mobile incubators
place as a strategy for tacit knowledge creation
live/work/play
entrepreneurship
mobile, global universities
a greatly expanded role in economic development
basic R&D keeps moving to univeristies
blunt tools: federal research outlays and incentives
massive infrastructure projects
scarce private capital
From technologies of matter and energy to science of living systems
From R&D organizations to massively collaborative networks
From the lone genius to the augmented individual
From market-driven speculation to public capacity building
Tooling up to meet long term economic and environmental challenges
From dematerialization and decentralization to reconfiguration and integration
From ivory tower to economic engine
From national innovation systems to regional knowledge ecosystems.
everything is both physical and virtual
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New development models
What Does
This
All Mean?
Foresight
Insight
Action
What are the trends
that will shape the future?
How will these trends
impact my organization?
If you knew that these forecasts were accurate, what would you do today to prepare?

Whathe tools and resources you have now, expect to have, or would like to have?
Large companies will pursue open innovation strategies, while streamlining internal R&D
Expansion of contract research industry
Assess needs of startup contract labs and create programs and support systems to grow or attract them
In this session, we will:
Learn about key forecasts of the future of science and technology-led development
Discuss how that will impact places
Learn how to draw out strategic implications and actions from these forecasts
About me:
technology forecasting, business strategy
Fortune 500, govt, NGOs
urban planning
NYCEDC telecom plan, other econ dev consulting