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Great article, the whole analysis is spot-on. In a country where risk-aversion is intrinsecally rooted in the business culture, it's difficult to be serious abo
by fbnt 16y ago
Great article, the whole analysis is spot-on. In a country where risk-aversion is intrinsecally rooted in the business culture, it's difficult to be serious about any business plan that dosen't lie in a well established market, but not impossible. Unfortunately, the university system (engineering, for my experience) is focused on producing well-manned corporate consultants whose main goal is to get an open-end contract, climb the ladder and wait for a bigger paycheck. Entrepreneurship isn't considered a prerogative for the 20-something 'kid', that's why it isn't taught or discussed in university classrooms.
There is lots of room for improvement, David's petition could be a first little step in the right direction.
(This is a comment I originally posted on Jesper's blog)
- bootload 16y ago"... Unfortunately, the university system (engineering, for my experience) is focused on producing well-manned corporate consultants whose main goal is to get an open-end contract, climb the ladder and wait for a bigger paycheck. ..." Yet it's the Italian firm http://www.arduino.cc http://www.arduino.cc is powering the open source hardware, "Can Open Source Hardware Work?", Clive Thompson ~ http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_openmanufacturing?currentPage=all http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_open...
- riffraff 16y agointerestingly enough, massimo banzi used to be a teacher in a grad school in italy that is now disappeared (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_Design_Institute_Ivrea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_Design_Institute_Iv...).
- jesperbergmann 16y agoMassimo Banzi is a great guy and a true visionary. Incidently he gave a speech in one of my classes and explained that the purpose of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea was to create an Italian verison of MIT's famous Media Lab. Typically, he said that when it was recognized for its excellence world wide, Telecom Italia decided to shot it down.