the networks are out there: building cultural and economic resilience through informal communities...
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This presentation explores the possibilities offered by informal communities of practice to operate as "prototyping spaces" for innovation in the context of developing economies. It begins by looking at the concept of "economic complexity" and how it is useful in both guiding the priorities and evaluating the challenges developing economies face when attempting to drive growth and build measures of resilience, and raises the question of how these economies can both introduce higher complexity activities while compensating for latecomer disadvantages versus more complex economies. It then examines in detail the case of the Twin Eagles Group, a Peruvian video game development community in the 1990s, and how they reverse engineered technologies and global practices to pursue their creative objectives. Based on this case, it concludes by laying out some of the methodological challenges associated to researching this sort of community because of the multi-sited nature of their activities.TRANSCRIPT
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The Networks Are Out ThereBuilding Cultural and Economic Resilience Through Informal Communities of Practice
Eduardo MariscaComparative Media Studies @ MIT
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Agenda
1.Networks of economic complexity
2.Innovation through reverse engineering
3.The challenges of uncovering networks
4.Key takeaways
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Agenda
1.Networks of economic complexity
2.Innovation through reverse engineering
3.The challenges of uncovering networks
4.Key takeaways
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If you export it, you make it
If you make it, you have all the skills to do so
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New skills
New combinations
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Lesser Complexity = Higher Vulnerability
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How do you gain new skills?
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Agenda
1.Networks of economic complexity
2.Innovation through reverse engineering
3.The challenges of uncovering networks
4.Key takeaways
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Media Innovation
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1989
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Reverse Engineering
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Technical
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Social
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2003
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Agenda
1.Networks of economic complexity
2.Innovation through reverse engineering
3.The challenges of uncovering networks
4.Key takeaways
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Invisible
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Research Challenges
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IGlobal / Local
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Transnational
Transmedia
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IIAccess
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IIIReciprocity
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Traces
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Network
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Agenda
1.Networks of economic complexity
2.Innovation through reverse engineering
3.The challenges of uncovering networks
4.Key takeaways
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IDeveloping economies need
innovative ways to introduce new skills
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IIUncharted pockets of innovation are
overcoming structural barriers through forms of reverse
engineering
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IIIBetter understanding of these
networks can unblock opportunities for innovation, creativity and productivity
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IVUncovering and mapping these networks benefits from a mixed-
methods approach and introduces new research challenges