I did some media training last week, which was interesting. In the course of the morning, I had to think about the main messages I would like to communicate to people about my research. The key one is that the networks that people form within innovating groups have an enormous impact on how successfully the […]
Here is David Lazer’s keynote talk at the Political Networks 2009 Conference that took place recently (James Fowler’s talk is also worth watching): David Lazer at Political Networks 2009 from David Lazer on Vimeo. Lazer shows examples from a lot of state-of-the-art network research, mostly centred around politics. It gives you a pretty good idea […]
Here’s a really good talk by Mark Newman called Structure and Dynamics in Complex Networks: Structure and Dynamics in Complex Networks If you’re curious about network analysis and have never run across it before, this gives a pretty good explanation of what it is, and some of the things that we can analyse with network […]
Roland Harwood has an interesting post today on the always worthwhile NESTA Connect blog in which he discusses eight issues that firms run into when trying to manage open innovation. While you should definitely read the whole post, one idea that jumped out at me is this: Misunderstand the difference between hierarchies and informal networks […]
Edward Glaeser has written a couple of posts over the past week looking at Argentina on the Economix blog for the NYT. It’s an interesting topic. Argentina was a wealthy country at the start of the 20th century, but by almost every conceivable ecnomic measure available, it is much worse off now than it was […]
Here’s our friend Andrew Stephen on getting ideas to spread through viral marketing: Everyone talks about how they need their ideas to go viral, and Andrew has a some excellent data on how to actually get this to happen. The key points – do something that is interesting enough that people actually want to talk […]
