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Orange Institute, a global research co-laboratory open to all, explores how rapidly mutating physical, knowledge and social networks are transforming society and its economy, enterprises and institutions


17 November, 2009 - The Orange Institute, a global research and conversation platform, held its inaugural session this week in San Francisco, California. The three-day workshop, which took place at the Orange Labs facility in San Francisco and the Stanford University campus, brought together a select group of senior business and policy leaders from companies and organizations from Europe, the US, China and Japan to explore and discuss how our society, companies and the economy are mutating into networks that increasingly depend on their ability to innovate.

The creation of the Orange Institute is triggered by the exponential growth and influence of global networks: physical, informational and social. Its ambition is to inspire a global conversation about how networks of all kinds are amplifying human potential and illuminating how we see the world, and each other.

The Orange Institute proposes to discuss how these new network dynamics are transforming virtually every aspect of our lives. Its ambition is to build a research community in which senior executives, entrepreneurs, researchers and policy-makers from across the world can freely explore and exchange ideas. By joining the platform, they will discover and apply these new network models, providing them with new ways to transform their organizations.

The Institute is itself designed as a network of research and collaboration nodes spread across different geographies and cultures, with a plan that calls for additional nodes to bring the network research community together in 2010 in Asia and Europe. This will enable members to make new connections that will drive personal transformation, and yield powerful concepts and practices valuable to their companies and organizations...


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