iG2010

Year in Review

Innovation Advocates

Linda McGurn Brian Beach

David Day David Guzick

Andy Sherrard Jackson Sasser

Angela Pate Jane Adams

Anthony Lyons Jim McClave

Breck Weingart John Spence

Innovation Advocates

Pegeen Hanrahan Phoebe Miles

Randy Reid Rich Blaser

Rod Smith Sandy Hollinger

Stephanie Warrington Sue Washer

Tom Rothrock Ward Boston

Brian Hutchison Mike Giampietro

Advocate Co-ChairsLinda McGurn & Brian Beach

• Learn Innovatively: Cade Virtual Museum (curriculum for innovators and entrepreneurs, mentoring mash-up, the Peeps Outreach, Educate the Educators; Earn While You Learn (HS and College Regional Internships, Campus Dormcubator; Raise the Bar (The STEAM Center based on Bidwell; Bachelors in Technology Commercialization; Masters in Innovation Convergence [engineering, design, etc.])

• Invest Innovatively: 21st Century Fund ($25mm Early & Mezzanine VC, $3.5mm Kick-Start for pre-seed and smaller investments, Economic Development Innovation Stimulus, Federal/Corporate Grant & Contract Leverage); Innovation-Ready Infrastructure (Business Innovation Zones, Broad-Band & WIFI Region-wide Access)

• Live Innovatively: Networking the Networks Portal; Innovators Mash-up (events); Gator InnoNation (connecting alumni, students, inventors and innovators around the world)

• Speak Innovatively: Innovation Gainesville Toolkit (the branded communications deliverables and targeted media campaign); Innovate Locally, Brand Globally elevator pitch (from taxi drivers to Kangaroo stations to hotels)

• Celebrate Innovatively: The Cade Innovation Prize (launch at $50K, expand to $1mm through corporate and other sponsors) for Youth & Student teams, Corporate teams, Public Sector teams, Interdisciplinary Product Design and Creation teams

Five Elements of Acting Innovatively

Create local internship program

Establish robust and diverse local investment funds

Connectivity Events, “Knowledge Network” – Network of Networks, Entrepreneurship Mentoring

Develop a Common Message describing OUR capabilities

Establish Annual Innovation Prize

2010 Innovation Gainesville

Jump Start Plan

Jump Start Co-ChairsJane Muir and John Spence

2010 Jump Start Team

Jane Muir John Spence

Marilyn Tubb Erik Sander

David Day Anthony Lyons

Angela Pate Terry VanNortwick

Dan Rua Kathy Viehe

Annie Pais Rose Fagler

Andy Sherrard

iG Speak – Elevator Speech

Elevator Speech – over 10K cards distributed

Speak Innovatively

Communications- Short Term Goals• Publicize Gainesville’s “Success stories”• Generate Buzz thru digital media• Promote through social media/search engine

optimization• Develop toolkit to promote Gainesville externally• Promote the area by utilizing existing networks• Forge strategic partnerships with local, state and

regional organizations

www.innovationgainesville.com

iG Social Media

The iG Store

Speak Innovatively

• Designed logo/identity and related collateral • Production of iG Video with new music for use

by local businesses• Banner Stands at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and

Gainesville Airport Display Unit (for 2011 roll-out)

• Wrote iG Communications Plan• Cade Prize Night promotion• Weekly iG Spotlight e-mail and e-journal

Banner Stand at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium

iG Speak Team

Terry VanNortwick Jane Muir

Kevin Ireland Debbie Lee

Janine Sikes Kathy Viehe

Jeannette Baer Annie Pais

Andy Fletcher

More Cool Things…National Recognition for Gainesville

• Richard Florida – Biggest projected gain in creative class jobs in GNV

• America’s Promise Alliance names Alachua County a winner of 100 Best Communities for Young People

• Liveability.com ranks GNV #1 in Top 10 College Towns: Great Cities for School and Life After Graduation

• American Institute for Economic Research recognizes GNV as a Top Small Metro based on academic environment, QoL, professional opportunity

• Mainstreet.com names Alachua as an “Up-and-Coming City”• Recognized in Southern Business & Development Magazine

article as a metro having more that saw 2 or more months of jobs gains.

• iG feature story on Florida Technology Journal• Portfolio.com – National Brainpower Index- #14, 2nd in South

More Cool Things – Company Successes

• Gainesville’s Grooveshark – Time Magazine’s Top 50 Websites of 2010

• Start-up Roombug featured in WSJ, NYT and Chronicle of Higher Ed

• WiPower, a GTEC company, is acquired by a Fortune 500 company

• InterMed Biomedical, 352 Media, O2BKids! & Nuclear Medicine Professionals make Inc. Magazine’s list of 5K fastest growing companies

• Banyan Biomarkers awarded $26.3 Million DoD contract to develop diagnostic blood test for trauma

• Fracture featured on homepage of Techcrunch.com, one of foremost tech blogs in the world

• Prioria awarded $2.8M contract with Canadian Dept of National Defense

iG LiveEntrepreneurial Mentoring

Live Innovatively

Entrepreneurial Mentoring - Short Term Goals• Identify Current mentoring organizations • Invite Organizations who offer mentoring

– Roundtable – All organizations offering mentoring

– Assessment of all offerings• Implement Plans to grow mentoring efforts

– Event in Dec. – “Be a Mentor/Have a Mentor”

Entrepreneurial MentoringCo-Chairs

Marilyn Tubb

and

Patti Breedlove

Knowledge Network:Know How, Know Whom, Know What, Know

When, Know Where

GAINnet 400 users in Jan/700+ users in December

START WITH

WHYMarch 2, 8 a.m.Hilton UF Conference Center

iG CelebrateAnnual Innovation Prize

1St Annual Cade Prize Winner Tutor Matching Service

iG LearnEarn While You Learn

Learn Innovatively Earn While You Learn

Short Term Goal: develop programs that incorporate on-job training– Targets specific at-risk high school students as

identified by SBAC– Currently have 30 applications from students to be

placed in Business for 2nd half of this school year– FloridaWorks currently interviewing students to find

right fit – Will contact businesses for placement– Goal to reduce dropout rate/improve grad rate– Additionally, TechQuest Program thru FLWorks

iG Learn Team

Angela Pate Andy Sherrard

Dug Jones Billie Monroe

Linda Nichols Sandy Hollinger

Kelly Gridley Eileen Roy

Rick Mulligan April Griffin

iG Invest – Funding Plan

Invest Innovatively

• Group working on collaborative financing model - public/private partnership

• Several iterations• Support from City Commission for initial money

to begin fund• Will be seeking additional private and public $• Eventually hire a Fund Manager• Identified at least 7 add’l Funding Streams

available through City/CRA

iG Invest Team

Anthony Lyons Dan Rua

Rose Fagler David Day

David Whitney Chris Brown

Kurt Killingsworth

David Massias

What else has been done beyond Jump Start?

Invest Innovatively

• CRA re-wrote hundreds of pages of code for iSquare district – sizing it down to about 20 pages from hundreds of pages

• DONE IN 30 DAYS!

• City looking to adopt it in other areas in first half of 2011.

• Opportunity to apply to County? Part of CEO Strategic Plan in 2011

INVEST - Florida Innovation Hub at UF

LIVE Innovativelywww.Gig4GNV.com

Gig4GNV Google Collaboratory

Celebrate Innovatively

Chamber Business Showcase

Innovation Room

Celebrate Innovatively

Business of the Year Awards

Celebrate Innovatively

Toast to Business

Innovation Award WinnersPhoebe Cade Miles and Anthony

Lyons• P

Toast to Business

Metrics

• # of spin-off companies from UF/SFC/Healthcare (occupational licenses)

• $ Invested in area (All, inc. VC, SBIR, OPM)• Jobs in Knowledge Economy

– HS Graduation Rates– Per Capita Income– Local GDP

• # of Partnerships/Collaborations

Challenges

• Identifying resources – a constant

• Organizational infrastructure– Ability to continue to achieve goals – Integration/prioritization with other

organizational goals

• Continued visibility/viability

• Volunteer Engagement

What’s next?

iG2011

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