research park

Silicon Somethings have sprung up across many continents, their gleaming research parks and California-style subdivisions designed to lure a globe-trotting workforce and cultivate a new set of tech entrepreneurs.

The students they educated, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, filled the well-paying jobs in these research parks and purchased homes in the suburbs where they were located.

Today’s schools bring the once suburban research parks to the city as “innovation districts” where academic research and corporate partnerships meet real estate, retail and cheap labor.