Last week CBC Spark broadcast an interesting interview with Mark Surman -Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation. Mark talks about innovation hubs, ideas regarding geography and online space in ‘workplace’ collaboration, multi-disciplinary design, and makes a few interesting observations:
… the Internet was invented by hippies and the Web was made big by punk rock …
[audio:http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/bonussparkplus_20120123_61399.mp3]… if you try to create the next Silicon Valley you are almost destined to fail because the sort of creativity that magnets people in and to a certain degree that kind of gritty gap that brings artists in, brings bands in, brings a sort of edgy culture … governments don’t create that – the kind of people that want to create Silicon Valleys and create economic development can’t create that open space and so in some ways places of innovation … can’t be by policy engineering