Overview
Business Oregon and the Lemelson Foundation have partnered, along with a seven-person Advisory Committee, to hire a consultant (funded by the Lemelson Foundation) to provide diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) consultancy services to support Oregon’s Regional Innovation Hub (Hubs), described below.
The consultancy will have three phases and last about 16 months. The first, the “Hub Planning Phase” is expected to begin in February 2023, lasting until the end of June 2023. The second phase, “Planning Period” will take place July-September of 2023 and will be a planning phase for the consultancy for the third phase. The third phase, the “Hub Implementation Phase” will begin in October 2023 and last until June 2024.