startup-ecosystem-mapping-report

Location, Place and
ENTREPRENEURIAL DENSITY
“PLACE IS SUPPLANTING THE INDUSTRIAL
CORPORATION AS THE KEY ECONOMIC
AND SOCIAL ORGANIZING UNIT OF
CAPITALISM. DENSITY, THE CLUSTERING
OF CREATIVE PEOPLE – IN CITIES,
REGIONS, AND NEIGHBOURHOODS -
PROVIDES A KEY SPUR TO INNOVATION
AND COMPETITIVENESS.”
RICHARD FLORIDA 19
No. GROUPS BY SUBURB
Brisbane
Brisbane CBD
South Bank
Robina
Fortitude Valley
Toowong
Parklands Drive
Southport
Bundall, East Brisbane, (#each)
Helensvale, Maleny, Spring Hill, (#each)
55
35
22
20
12
8
6
5
4
3
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
No. GROUPS: VENUE
State Library of Queensland / The Edge
Silicon Lakes / Robina Comnty Cntr / Tech Space
Microsoft Innovation Center
River City Labs
Brisbane Square Library
Grand Central Hotel
QUT
Red Hat Brisbane, Innovation Centre - SC
Griffith University
Toowong Library, Suncorp & Bond Uni (#each)
31
23
15
13
12
11
10
8
7
6
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
While formal office locations are useful indicators
of where creative people are based, they spend an
increasing amount of the time outside their registered
office addresses (assuming they have one at all) in
what Richard Florida calls the “4th space”: central,
easily accessible places where people can network in a
leisurely but intensively productive manner. Co-working
spaces, incubators and web cafés are examples of this
trend.
To identify these alternate spaces and map
entrepreneurial density across SEQ all the public geotagged
posts in SEQ from Meetup, Twitter, Instagram
and Linkedin were collected and filtered by people
within the ecosystem, to identify specific locations
beyond the office that participants in this ecosystem
frequent.
Brisbane Central Business District, Brisbane’s
Southbank, Robina, Fortitude Valley and Toowong come
out with the most entrepreneurial density.
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