Entrepreneurship isn’t just a sport; it’s extreme. John Seely Brown, Deloitte Center for the Edge’s Independent Co-Chairman, paid attention when suddenly five of the globe’s top aerial surfers originated from the same place. Why the sudden regional success? Though fierce competitors, they all knew one another and collectively benchmarked from other surfers. They recorded and studied one another’s achievements and flaws, and appropriated ideas from adjacent verticals, such as skateboarding, mountain biking, etc. Collectively, they improved their personal performance, and simultaneously built up the local ecosystem en masse. Seely Brown points out these passion-fueled tactics and suggests that entrepreneurs use this model to expand their personal performance and build success to benefit their business community.

Video clips from: Collaborative Innovation and a Pull Economy [Entire Talk]

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The Knowledge Economy of World of Warcraft

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Pulling the Core to the Edge

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Exposing More "Surfaces"

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Shaping Serendipity

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The Business School of Extreme Aerial Surfing

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Material Science Start-ups in the Modern Age

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The Old Institutions are Broken

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