Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category

The virtual silicon valley that is GrowVC

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Some say, its the future of funding for entrepreneurs, and they just may be right. easy to understand presentation on a company that I am a great believer in GrowVC - V=venture, C=Community.In Communities Dominate Brands, we always said the ...

If life is local then you have to mean it

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Life is Local is the anthem to which the Johnston Press sings along, and of course the truth is that in many ways, life is still very local, still very situated in physical space and place. Of course the struggle ...

Entrepreneurs get networked up to and across each other

Thursday, May 13th, 2010Got a great business idea but no money to finance it? It's the age old problem faced by would-be entrepreneurs. But a new generation of online funding platforms is taking the pain out of raising capital to get new ventures ...

A requiem for Detroit

Thursday, May 13th, 2010I became aware of the plight of Detroit through my research into Local Motors. I used Detroit in my sxsw presentation to highlight what happens when we cannot build adaptation, into business systems, into regions - this is the toxic ...

Selling in the networked economy @ Cambridge Network

Thursday, May 13th, 2010Last night I motorcycled over to Redgate Software on the Cambridge Business Park to speak at the Cambridge Network event, so thank you Matt from Cambridge Network for inviting me along, on Selling in the Networked Economy. Well, the official ...

The fairness in economics

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010Ernst Fehr on compassion in economics,Twenty years ago, Fehr had a seemingly sensible idea - that a deep-seated human preference for fairness might play an important role in economics.Fairness and Reciprocity

Entrepreneurship in the networked society by John Seely Brown

Thursday, April 29th, 2010Following on from yesterday's post on the evolution of media/publishing etc., inspired by Alan Rusbridger speaking at the Law firm OlswangI came across a great address that John Seely Brown gave at Stanford's Technology and Ventures Program. For the networked ...

Alan Rusbridger: 21st Century publishing @ Olswang

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010I went along last night to listen to Alan Rusbridger present at Olswangs Technology+ event. A packed room, listened attentively to what he had to say. The word he used for the future of the Guardian was mutalisation: whereby value ...

Machines and biology by Andrew Hessel

Thursday, April 8th, 2010A fascinating talk by Andrew HesselAndrew Hessel reasons that Synthetic Biology will be the next big IT industry. In his remarkable talk Andrew talks about the parallels between IT and biology. Andrew lectures Synthetic Biology at the Singularity University and ...

Industrial slash and burn or the no straight lines of possibility?

Friday, March 26th, 2010In his article for The Observer – Tony Judt writes,Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For 30 years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes ...

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