City Lab - Geneva Experience

01/21/2022

Best class over

10/16/2018

this was one of my classes at Georgetown learned alot

07/19/2013

Go home, wheelchair. You're obsolete.

07/25/2012

This'll make you smile.

06/01/2012

Paralympians show off the high-tech wizardry that is part of today's elite level competition, and describe the impact that new designs, new materials, and ne...

05/22/2012

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/03/20/GA2010032001683.html

Nearly 1,000 U.S. service members have undergone amputations in the eight years of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among their post-battlefield challenges is adjusting to civilian life with a prosthetic.

05/22/2012

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032001225.html

Aug. 11, 2009, Afghanistan : After the blast, something didn't feel right, so 1st Lt. Joe Guyton looked down. Through the swirling dust, he glimpsed the white of his left shinbone. His right leg was gone, instantly vaporized, his uniform abruptly ending at the knee.

05/14/2012

http://contentm.mkt3879.com/mson/2012/05/14/xCTlXBMSeJlW/index.html

Northeast Ohio small business owners can now apply for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses 11-session course beginning at Cuyahoga County Community College in September 2012. Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is a highly practical business management education program that helps entrepreneurs ...

05/09/2012

Exploring downtown Cleveland

04/16/2012

This series about "catastrophically wounded" veterans, including a triple-amputee, won a Pulitzer today. Worth a read.

"Beyond the Battlefield" is a 10-part series exploring the challenges that severely wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan face after they return home, as well as what those struggles mean for those close to them. Other stories in the series can be found here.

04/09/2012

Ekso Bionics builds robotic exoskeletons that can help paraplegics walk. All CEO Eythor Bender has to do is create a market for a product that no one knew they wanted.

03/29/2012

Who knew there was an Adaptive Sports Foundation? Putting this one in our Rolodex.....

03/12/2012

Thanks to Mike Shafarenko at The Civic Commons for sharing the info about this contest.

What is SMART MobiPrize? Who would be interested? What is Entrepreneurship? What is Innovation? What is Sustainable Transportation? Why SMART MobiPrize? What is SMART?

03/01/2012

City Lab is on The Civic Commons! One of this semester's students got us started last night by asking the first of many questions we'll have to spur discussion and guide our work.

The Civic Commons is a new way to bring communities together with conversation and emerging technology. We are focused on building conversations and connections that have the power to become informed, productive collective civic action.

02/11/2012

02/10/2012

HARPERSFIELD TOWNSHIP — SPIRE Institute will expand its educational base and accept international students into its sports performance programs through a partnership with the Andrews Osborne Academy, Ted Meekma, SPIRE management team member, announced Wednesday. Enrollment in grades nine through...

01/23/2012

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/01/bringing-ohios-rust-belt-industries-21st-century/1001/

A regional organization helps old commodities industries find new niches for their products

12/19/2011

Sixteen students from Georgetown University are back in northeastern Ohio with big ideas. Some of those dreams will be presented to area government a

12/13/2011

By William H. Hudnut III As I

12/07/2011

12/02/2011

Learn more about how students at the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies (SCS) are helping northeast Ohio revitalize itself through a new course called City Lab. After meeting with town leaders and citizens, City Lab participants suggested a sustainable northeast Ohio economic clu...

11/30/2011

http://www.georgetown.edu/news/continuing-studies-city-lab-course.html

From left to right: SCS students James Carrington, Carlos Casseus and Kelly Holdcraft talk with Mick Prochko, owner of Covered Bridge Gardens, as part of their course focused on creating a business plan for northeast Ohio. Covered Bridge Gardens is a farm in Jefferson, Ohio. Photo by Hannah L Cordel...

10/28/2011

10/27/2011

In the future we're not going to fight the robots, we're going to wear them. Holly Finn looks at new devices that help people walk, including a robotic suit from Ekso Bionics and the HULC from Lockheed Martin.

10/27/2011

Georgetown University – SPIRE Institute
City Lab Fall 2011

Problem Statement

The students of the fall term 2011 City Lab class have chosen to focus their term work on determining how the “adaptive community” economic cluster can be developed in northeastern Ohio. The idea is to determine how to help convene the various corporate, non-profit and government organizations that in some way serve the prosthetic or exo-skeletal market.

The City Lab students will spend the rest of the term studying this market, its culture, the industry dynamics, and the people whose lives are impacted by this work. Using SPIRE as a home base for the development of this cluster, the students will seek to develop a business plan that creates a strategy, structure and implementation approach to generate a sustainable economic cluster.

Cluster economics has become a meaningful way to strategize the economic development of regions. According to Harvard University’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Clusters:

“… are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions in a particular field that are present in a nation or region. Clusters arise because they increase the productivity with which companies can compete.”

This approach is powerful because it is a sub-section of one of the largest industry sectors in northeast Ohio. The Center for Economic Development within the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University describes the healthcare industry in Northeast Ohio in the following way:

“From 1978 to 2003, the national population grew by 31 percent, while the national healthcare industry’s employment increased 116 percent (1.63 ratio). In Cleveland, the population has remained almost unchanged (–3%), while the healthcare industry grew 80 percent (1.86 ratio). Therefore, during the long-term period, Cleveland’s healthcare cluster grew faster than the national rate when controlling for the change of population.”

Geneva, Ohio-based Georgetown University partner SPIRE Institute is in the process of determining how best to partner with organizations in the adaptive community space. Specifically, SPIRE has had conversations with Parker Hannifin, the USOC, the Wounded Warriors, other Military organizations, and many major sports alliances. In addition, SPIRE is interested in bringing to its campus many players in the health care industry to help establish it as a major player in the adaptive community space.

By the end of the Fall 2011 term, City Lab students will have created a strategy, development plan and communications plan to develop a solid economic model for a cluster incubated at SPIRE, but with the intent of serving Geneva and the entire Northeast Ohio region.

10/24/2011

http://scs.georgetown.edu/about-scs/news-and-events/article.cfm?eId=572

Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies invites you to join the Georgetown community. With a broad range of courses, programs, certificates, and degrees, the School of Continuing Studies will bring you the experience of life-long learning.