John Seely Brown (Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation) - Collaborative Innovation and a Pull Economy

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 14 April 2010

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What can extreme surfing and World of Warcraft teach the enterprise? Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge and former Xerox PARC Chief Scientist John Seely Brown holds them as examples of the power of frequent benchmarking and full industry info-share. He also uses them to show how the core ecosystem can be made stronger by sharing knowledge gathered from learning on the edge. In addition, Seely Brown touches upon his theory of a monumental economic shift from a push to a pull economy as outlaid in his 2010 book, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	It brings me great pleasure to introduce our thought leader for today, John Seeley Brown.
0:23.6	I have been admiring John's work for many years. He is a legend, not only here in Silicon Valley, but around the world.
0:30.6	Among his many accomplishments are that he's currently one of the co-leaders of the Deloitte Center for The Edge.
0:38.7	So if you haven't gone there, you can go to his website and learn more about that.
0:42.9	In another life, he was the chief scientist at Xerox Corporation
0:46.6	and the head of the Palo Alto Research Center at a time when many innovations spun out of park
0:51.7	and have really changed our world as we know it.
0:54.8	He's gotten many books to his credit.
0:57.4	One of his most current is The Power of Pull.
1:00.9	And, John, we're so delighted to have you with us today.
1:03.3	Let's welcome John Seeley Brown.
1:08.4	In fact, I think it's an understatement to say...
1:12.6	I forgot the thing...
1:14.6	Should I say that?
1:15.6	Yes, up to you, sir.
1:18.6	Something you may not know is that John Seeley Brown was the youngest licensed bookie
1:23.6	in the state of New York.
1:25.6	Now, ask him how he got that accomplished.
1:27.9	No, no, that's why I paid my way through school.
1:33.9	Yeah, as Tom mentioned, there's a new book out called The Power of Pull. When I say
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