How do corporates create new places where their teams car innovate, or re-innovate? What are the rules that make a hackerspace a place where ideas can turn into prototypes? Why do the GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple) all open new headquarters in 2015-2016? We decided for a simple methodology which analysed each unit of our corpus through 5 criteria: Size: what superficy? how many members? what kind of funding? Openness: how open is it to other communities? to city-dwellers? to clients? to entrepreneurs? Interdisciplinarity: what fields are these places working on? Partnerships: how many institutions are gathered in the place of innovation? Valuation: what follow-up for the innovations created in different places? Our corpus included about 35 different places we have been visiting, from Nigeria’s CC-Hub to the Shenzhen Maker Faire, as well as Coca-Cola Accelerator in Singapore. To sort these samples, we decided for a six-part corpus: Tech giants from the US, namely the GAFA: as they all renew their HQ, it’s time to see how they intend, by doing so, to conquer new markets. Corporate accelerators: a recent trend, which has large corporations open places where tech startups can find a subsidised space. Corporates can get a financial interest (equity, revenue sharing) to hosting innovative companies in their industries. Community powered spaces: coworking spaces, hackerspaces, makerspaces, fablabs would fit into this category. Usually, the community pre-exists the space (through events), and decides to open a space when a critical mass allows it to get enough memberships to break-even. Government-powers clusters: for sake of a better name, these are usually large, big clusters funded in totality or significantly by governments, who hope to create replicas of the Silicon Valley to attract talent (or retain it), create jobs. Events, tech festivals and conferences: the mythology of events such as SXSW, the CES in Las Vegas or any other conference and/or demo and/or unconference is that many things happen in the discussions, after parties and casual meetings that happen in or at the fringe of the venue itself. International networks: probably one of the most digital and recent trends, some networks such as Sandbox or the Kairos society don’t have a specific place (or a virtual one: Facebook groups, Slack communities), span many countries, and breeds innovation on specific segments (people below 30, social entrepreneurs, etc).