Vancouver innovation economy map

The innovation economy is unique to each city. For Vancouver, it includes local start-ups to large multinational satellite offices that work in:

• Specialized manufacturing and technology prototyping
• Creative production industries like industrial design and graphic arts
• Technology-driven industries like digital enterprise and media production

These firms form eight clusters within Vancouver's metro core.

1. Broadway Corridor: medical and creative businesses
   (VCH Research Institute, Center for Brain Health, Zymeworks, and VGH)
2. Burrard Slopes: medical, creative, and start-up businesses
   (Analysis Works, Lululemon, and Allocadia)
3. Downtown: larger technology businesses
   (Microsoft, Amazon, and Chimp)
4. False Creek Flats: green emerging and innovation businesses
   (Centre for Digital Media, Discovery Parks, and MEC)
5. Gastown: social innovation, creative, and start-up businesses
   (EnerNoc (Pulse Energy), Metafor Software, and Trulioo)
6. Mount Pleasant: digital and creative businesses
   (Equicare Health, Kit and Ace, and Hootsuite)
7. Railtown: industrial, creative, and start-up businesses
   (Bensen Manufacturing Inc, Herschel Supply Co, and Union Wood Co)
8. Yaletown: digital and creative businesses
   (Commvault Vancouver, Idelix Software Inc, and SAP)