Presentation to the International Downtown Association at the Spring 2011 Conference in Chicago.

1. RenGen City: How to Attract Innovation to Your Community Patricia Martin @PatriciaMartin

2. Why innovation? Jobs, new products, start-ups, investment capital, talent. © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

3. SXSW… What’s up with that? © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

4. Economist Paul Romer, Charter Cities © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

5. Old growth theory: Object Based © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

6. New growth theory: Idea Based © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

7. What motivates knowledge workers? © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

8. When their ideas make progress Harvard Study, 2010 © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

9. Tech innovation value chain: Problems + Ideas + Technology = Progress © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

10. Experiments: Creating idea cultures in communities © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

11. Visual: Design Philadelphia © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

12. Expressive: Library of the Future Delft, Netherlands © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

13. Industrious: Library to Grow Jobs For Creatives

14. Sponsored Catalysts

15. James Powderly © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

18. Come Up To My Room- Gladstone Hotel, Toronto

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20. Nurturing the Human Factor © 2011 Patricia Martin. All rights reserved.

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23. What Makes You So Interesting? Idea Economics and the Network Effect Photo: Dani Ayu

24. How can your city be a platform for the exchange of ideas?

25. Thank you! Want slides? @PatriciaMartin