Can you build ‘innovation districts’ in towns that don’t have high populations, but have attractive lifestyles?
Entrepreneurs want to be in places with a lot of action and like minded people, but are there good examples where you build the infrastructure in places that don’t have a high population but have some attractive natural assets such as skiing moutains, beaches, surfing, mountain climbing, lakes, rivers, good weather.. etc 

And this can start a snowball effect with more people coming in.. for example just building a larger multi purpose development and organizing different developers that might build housing at the same time
[{"id": "eu2ikhl", "text": "Probably not, where's the tax base for muni support? It's not there.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "eu33emx", "text": "Innovation districts usually are organically because there is already a lot of talent in the area. You can\u2019t really force it. It\u2019s like the chicken before the egg.\n\nFor example I\u2019m in the DMV and we\u2019ve had a lot more startups in Northern Virginia in the past few years. This is partly due to all the businesses in Virginia and now that amazon is coming, George Mason is building a $1B legit innovation campus.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "eu3e0o8", "text": "It takes time and I believe in addition to \u201cattractive lifestyles\u201d / amenities you also need a talent base (a university).\n\nChattanooga is a good example.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]