Innovation Ecosystem Platform

A platform for exploring and connecting with the innovation ecosystem in St. Gallen.

Project Structure

This project consists of:

• Frontend: Next.js application with React and TypeScript
• Backend: Python Flask API with SQLite database

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Docker and Docker Compose
• Node.js (for local frontend development)
• Python 3.9+ (for local backend development)

Running with Docker

# Start both frontend and backend
docker-compose up

# Build and start (if you've made changes to Dockerfiles)
docker-compose up --build

Local Development

Frontend

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

Backend

cd backend
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

Features

• Interactive visualization of the innovation ecosystem
• Chat interface for exploring data
• Roadmap visualization
• User authentication

Data

The project uses the Canton of St. Gallen innovation ecosystem dataset.