Bacon's Rebellion: The Power of People Networks - The Diigo Meta page

• 28 May 08
  

  Bertrand Duperrin

  One of the key concepts in Richard Florida's new book, "Who's Your City?" is that of the "clustering force," a knowledge-economy phenomenon that reward people for congregating in places where they can network and collaborate with one another. (

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  • I would submit a hypothesis: The capacity of a region for innovation can be measured by the number of formal and informal networking organizations that create "bridging" opportunities across the broadest possible spectrum of society. The richer and denser the skein of bridging networks, the more easily ideas can be communicated through a region, the more spontaneously creative ideas will erupt, and the more speedily people can convert novel notions into business opportunities.

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