UIX Report: Detroit Innovation Insights

Since 2012, Data Driven Detroit and Issue Media Group have been studying innovators in Detroit. Three years and many surveys and interviews later, they have greater insight into this growing movement of small-scale, place-based community impact work. (For some earlier findings, read here, here and here.) The insights they've collected through our qualitative research model and network analysis are valuable not just for Detroit, but potentially for any community looking to retain local talent and promote civic engagement. This series of blog posts describes the insights they learned, their research and methods, and their results.