Blog Post 3

Hello everyone!

I don’t have much to report this week as far as progress on my project with the 1819 Innovation Hub.  After my last meeting with Drew Boyd, I started doing research on other innovative cities and innovation hubs around the country, and I quickly realized I highly underestimated the amount of research I would have to do.  I started with an article I found listing the top 10 innovative cities in America, and from there I decided to research each city individually to find innovation hubs or centers and what kinds of products they offered (ex. Innovation programs, individual and corporate events, etc.).  I only got through two cities, Silicon Valley and Seattle, when I looked at my page count and saw I had 14 pages of data.  Granted, it was all copying and pasting from the websites for now, because my plan was to go back and refine all the data once I had it in one place.  But… 14 pages for 2 cities is not what I excepted.  On Friday I called Drew and he asked me to send him what I have so far, because we are debating bringing someone else in, whether it be a GA or undergrad, to help me gather and refine all of the data so I can turn it into David and Myrita in a presentable way.  So, while I wait to hear back from him on the quality of my research and how we are going to proceed, I have been doing light research on some of the other areas, and one big chain of innovation hubs called Impact Hub.  Impact Hub is different from other innovative hubs because it is a chain- this one company has innovation hubs all over the world.  I thought that was interesting, because typically the hubs I have been finding are unique to the city.  Hopefully by next week I will have made more progress, but Drew and I are taking this one step at a time.