A task force appointed in September by Mayor Martin J. Walsh is eyeing four neighborhoods as potential innovation hubs, Boston's economic development czar said yesterday.
Although its final recommendations are not due until Jan. 30, the four areas most discussed by the Neighborhood Innovation District Committee are East Boston, the Bowdoin-Geneva and Fields Corner sections of Dorchester, and Dudley Square in Roxbury to Uphams Corner in Dorchester, said John Barros, who co-chairs the committee.
"Mayor Walsh sees an opportunity to bring the innovation economy into Boston's neighborhoods," said Melina Schuler, a spokeswoman for the mayor. "The recommendations being made by the Neighborhood Innovation District Committee are first steps in establishing how communities can participate and benefit from this new type of entrepreneurship and job creation."
While government can be the catalyst for that, the private sector "can make it real and sustainable," as has been the case with MassChallenge, said Scott Bailey, senior director of partnerships for the Boston-based startup accelerator and competition.
"The real challenge in any of these neighborhoods is how do you keep them included in what's going on in other places," Bailey said. "It's not about building a cluster and leaving it off on its own."
Charles Teague, CEO of Lose It!, a startup that makes software to help people lose weight, said when his company was looking for a location, it chose Boston's Innovation District because it was more affordable than Cambridge's Kendall Square and had a vibrant community of tech companies working on some of the same problems. He worries that sense of community could be "fragmented" if the city creates other innovation districts.
But Tim Rowe, founder and CEO of the Cambridge Innovation Center, said: "Innovation-driven prosperity can't remain the province of just a few neighborhoods. If Boston wasn't pursuing this, we'd be asking it to."
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