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SUMMARY:Will Makerspaces Ever Make It Big? The Emergence of Maker Entrepre
 neurs and Maker Ecosystems - Howard E. Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Socio
 logy and Adjunct Professor of Business at the University of North Carolina
 \, Chapel Hill
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CONTACT:valeria dammicco
DESCRIPTION:"Capitalist economies are experiencing technological and insti
 tutional changes that some have described as potentially as important as a
  second Industrial Revolution and others\, somewhat more modestly\, as a d
 evelopment as important as the rise of the commercial Internet in the 1990
 s. Optimists point to the growth of the maker movement as a key developmen
 t\, claiming that it facilitates user driven innovation and the emergence 
 of bottom-up entrepreneurship. Moreover\, they cite the emergence of crowd
 funding\, facilitating the funding of small-scale entrepreneurship outside
  the usual funding channels. Proponents assert that these technological an
 d institutional changes in the past decade have substantially lowered the 
 threshold for entrepreneurs wishing to start their own businesses\, across
  a variety of industries. But\, skeptics claim that most makers\, affiliat
 ed with local makerspaces\, will never amount to more than tinkerers and l
 ocally-oriented producers\, with corporations co-opting the best of open-s
 ourced innovation. Critics say\, for example\, that makers will have probl
 ems scaling up of prototypes to producing enough to create a business. Ove
 r the last five years\, however\, many new organizations and institutions 
 have arisen within entrepreneurial ecosystems of cities and have given hop
 e to advocates of the maker movement.\n\nIn my talk\, I will share what I 
 have learned so far and speculate on what their results mean for theories 
 of entrepreneurship\, community development\, and the emergence of new ind
 ustries."
LOCATION:Institute for Manufacturing\, 17 Charles Babbage Road\, Cambridge
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