New economy neighborhoods in the innovation city

(The Boston Globe, November 10, 2013)

Boston's Innovation District has been hugely successful, creating white-collar jobs and transforming the waterfront. However, Boston still has intractable poverty highly concentrated in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan. These communities have not benefited from Boston’s innovation renaissance. Transforming the city will require the innovation economy making it out to Boston’s black, Hispanic, and Asian communities. How? Identify and build innovation clusters right where people live. Call them “New Economy Neighborhoods,” turning Boston’s disenfranchised neighborhoods into successful, small-scale engines of tomorrow.