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JOIST puts innovation within walking distance
In a former industrial building in Larissa, JOIST brings desks, prototypes, classrooms and business advice under one roof. Its wager: useful technology travels faster when the people who need it can meet the people who understand it.
MotionLab.Berlin gives hardware startups room to make a mess
A €1,500 double-decker bus helped give this Berlin workshop its personality. Shared machinery, paid memberships and publicly backed programs explain how it helps hardware founders get to work.
Ghana Tech Lab Wants Your First Business to Start in a Classroom
Free digital training is only the opening lesson. Ghana Tech Lab connects local classrooms, startup coaching and seed grants - with a practical question waiting at the end: will anybody buy what you build?
The Accelerator That Bets on Atoms, Not Apps
Everyone wanted to fund the next app. N15 built a workshop for the people who make things you can hold - and turned Korea's biggest electronics market into a startup factory.
Make:
Make: is the media and events company that gave the maker movement its name. Founded in 2005 by Dale Dougherty inside O'Reilly Media, it publishes Make: magazine, runs Maker Faire events around the world, and sells kits and books through the Maker Shed. After a 2019 shutdown, Dougherty restructured the business as Make: Community LLC and kept it going.