High-Tech Economic Development Practice
General Informatics consultants have deep personal and professional roots in several of the world's leading high-tech hot spots.
- In Austin, we were officials of the renowned IC2 Institute, teachers at the original Austin Technology Incubator, and founders of the Austin Technology Council. These organizations have spurred hundreds of startups and relocations to Austin and to the Waco-Monterrey corridor.
- In Portland, we launched the Northwest Education Cluster and, with conferences and workshops, supported the advanced display cluster in the Northwest, and served on the Board of Directors of the Software Association of Oregon.
- In San Diego, home of the world's premier biotech cluster and an emerging military informatics cluster, we have supervised dissertations on San Diego pharmaceutical R&D, and advised the city's new biomimicry cluster initiative.
The 2006 book The Technopolis Columns, by G.I. Managing Partner Fred Phillips, led to engagements
- As trainers at South Korea's premier science city, Daejeon (with the World Technopolis Association).
- As consultants to the government of Costa Rica's science park initiative (with the World Technopolis Association).
- As consultants and facilitators of the Cincinnati-area water tech innovation cluster (with the Environmental Protection Agency).
General Informatics consultants apply this deep experience to the benefit our Economic Development Practice clients.