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how do you improve the odds for entrepreneurship?

Beirut18 November 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

1. lower the cost of failure2. increase the rate of attempts

3. use the open standards4. empower everyone


ETHERNET

TCP/IP

HTML / HTTP documents

networks

computers


the commons


ETHERNET

TCP/IP

HTML / HTTP

COMMONS

documents

networks

computers

knowledge


(i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject

(ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or

(iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation


“paper knowledge governance:

registrationcertificationdisseminationpreservation


guilds govern...


new institutions...


knowledge in“permanent beta”


“small parts loosely joined”

1. shared standards2. shared infrastructure3. democratized access

4. rights to the user


(not the old institutions!)


“retain modular flexibility between layers”


University

Industry

Government


University

Industry

Government

startupstartup

startup

startup

startup


startup

startupstartup

University

Industry

Government

startup startup


University

Industry

Government


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1. lower the cost of failure2. increase the rate of attempts

3. use the open standards4. empower everyone


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Technology

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