Labora: investigating the Vancouver Startup ecosystem

Project presentation used at SFU public square event "Work in the 21st Century: Innovations in Research".
For more info on the project, please visit https://labora.co/

Transcript

1. Work in the 21st Century: innovations in Research
   Alberto Lusoli - Feb.26th 2018
   

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2. From industrial
   capitalism to the
   network
   economy
   

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3. FROM MECHANISM
   TO ORGANISM
   “If a node in the network ceases to perform a useful function it is phased out
   from the network, and the network rearranges itself – as cells do in
   biological processes” - Manuel Castells
   

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4. SPEED - ADAPTABILITY EXPERIENCE - CAREER
   

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5. Uncertainty today is
   woven into the everyday
   practices of a vigorous
   capitalism.
   Instability is meant to be
   normal, Schumpeter ’s
   entrepreneur served up
   as an ideal Everyman
   - Richard Sennett (1998)
   

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6. EMPLOYABILITY
   The capacity people must be equipped with if they are to be called upon for
   projects. This is the personal capital that everyone must manage,
   comprising the total set of skills people can mobilize. - Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello
   

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7. VANCOUVER MEETUP MAP
   Feb. 18th 2018 – Oct.18th 2018
   

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8. 2003-2018
   ACTIVE GROUPS IN VANCOUVER
   

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9. 370 active groups
   832 events
   5.764 participants
   

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11. AVERAGE WEEK IN VANCOUVER
    

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12. COMMUNITY
    NETWORK
    EDUCATION
    

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13. the
    

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14. THANK YOU
    Project website: https://labora.co
    Private FB group: facebook.com/groups/labora.co/
    Twitter: @albertolusoli
    Thanks to all photographers who released their work in the public domain using Creative Common:
    • Aditya Chinchure
    • The Creative Exchange
    • Jon Tyson
    • Annie Spratt
    • Ricardo Gomez Angel
    • Mathew Schwartz
    • Sebastien Gabriel
    • Markus Spiske
    • Pexel ph.: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
    

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