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
2. From industrial capitalism to the network economy
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
4. SPEED - ADAPTABILITY EXPERIENCE - CAREER
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)
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
7. VANCOUVER MEETUP MAP Feb. 18th 2018 – Oct.18th 2018
8. 2003-2018 ACTIVE GROUPS IN VANCOUVER
9. 370 active groups 832 events 5.764 participants
11. AVERAGE WEEK IN VANCOUVER
12. COMMUNITY NETWORK EDUCATION
13. the
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)