I love this article even though I don’t agree with a major premise (because cities are locations- pieces of land that cannot die). But I agree (and have thought for years) that we need to have Bell Labs like companies. Google has an amazing citation of talent at X (formerly called Google X). They just need to do 2 things to supercharge it: (1) let anyone raise ideas and be allowed to bring their ideas into reality (right now that privilege belongs only to Google/Alphabet employees), and (2) allow research to be done even if it won’t be profitable.
The question I have for you is this: if companies became more like cities, what value would companies bring that universities don’t already bring?
I love this article even though I don’t agree with a major premise (because cities are locations- pieces of land that cannot die). But I agree (and have thought for years) that we need to have Bell Labs like companies. Google has an amazing citation of talent at X (formerly called Google X). They just need to do 2 things to supercharge it: (1) let anyone raise ideas and be allowed to bring their ideas into reality (right now that privilege belongs only to Google/Alphabet employees), and (2) allow research to be done even if it won’t be profitable.
The question I have for you is this: if companies became more like cities, what value would companies bring that universities don’t already bring?