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Labora: investigating the Vancouver Startup ecosystem

Alberto Lusoli
February 26, 2018

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/

Alberto Lusoli

February 26, 2018
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  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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