The Santa Fe Innovation Park is designed as an applied solutions laboratory, focusing on complex, systemic problems. SFIP will feature trans-disciplinary collaborations and specialized processes and facilities. It will bring together institutional and individual leaders from industry and commerce; the public and social sectors; science, technology, and engineering; and design and creative fields. These sectors will work together to produce practical solutions to important problems. 
Programmatic Interests
As a service organization, SFIP’s primary mission is to support the innovation and problem-solving needs of its clients and partners. These may originate from any of the four main sectors (Science, Industry, Policy, Art & Design), or a combination. In addition, SFIP’s founders and core team members seek to make substantial contributions to national and global progress in these key program areas, by helping to develop and launch projects with high potential for innovative solutions:
- Energy
- Climate
- Health
- Education
- Water
Local, National, Global Impacts
SFIP is designed to produce tangible benefits and impacts at widely varying scales, from the immediate Santa Fe region to truly global systematic challenges, as follows:
Local: SFIP is an economic development initiative, and the foundation for an economic development strategy for northern New Mexico. The intent is to position the Santa Fe area as a globally recognized center for creative problem solving, and to leverage the region’s world-class scientific and creative resources to fuel sustainable economic growth.
National: SFIP will serve as a national innovation center, supporting innovative efforts to solve pressing domestic problems, and the development of a U.S. strategy as an innovation leader in the global economy.
International: SFIP will work with affiliated agencies, institutions, and individuals world-wide to find integrated approaches to global challenges.
A “Next-Generation Research Park”
In many ways, SFIP represents a new wave in the design of innovation parks, featuring flexibility, programs and services, and a rich ferment of intellectual capital, supporting distributed and open-source collaborations and collective intelligence networks, under an applied innovation theme. This contrasts with the legacy paradigm of fixed assets, and a focus on intellectual property and commercialization.
Download SFIP’s presentation to the Applied Solutions Coalition 2009 Santa Fe Workshop on “Innovation Parks: Past, Present, and Future” here.
Public/Private Partnership
Reflecting its trans-disciplinary and cross-sector structure, SFIP is a true Public/Private Partnership. Support and engagement from the public sector at the city, state, and federal levels, the social sector and philanthropic sector, and private sector engagement have been, and will continue to be crucial to SFIP’s fulfillment of its mission.
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