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		<title>The Limitations of Imitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation is getting a lot of attention at the moment in development and humanitarian work. Many, including myself, see this as long overdue. But, according to an article in this  weeks Economist, this attention may be misplaced. The piece makes a strong argument for the importance of imitation  in business, and its advantages over innovation. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2594&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JP Morgan and the Price of Complexity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the text of an article in the Washington Post by Dominic Basulto about last week&#8217;s events in the financial markets. Great stuff. When news first broke Thursday that JPMorgan&#8217;s credit derivatives portfolio had sustained a loss of $2 billion, and potentially as much as $5 billion, on trades gone awry, there was an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2597&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Scientist Briefing: Can ecosystems show how to fix the euro?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eurozone, like the rest of the world economy, is a complex networked system. That gives it properties economists rarely consider but which could help us understand the current crisis. This New Scientist &#8216;Science in Society&#8217; Briefing examines the issues. What is a complex network? Complex networks have many interconnected components which influence each other&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2417&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does The Atlas of Economic Complexity Mean for Development?</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/11/03/the-atlas-of-economic-complexity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard and Cesar Hidalgo of MIT (whose work I have blogged about previously here) have just published the deeply impressive Atlas of Economic Complexity. It is built around an innovative, network-based methodology for understanding economies and their potential for  growth. It represents perhaps the most systematic and in-depth application of the ideas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2388&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whose Paradigm Counts? Guest Post 2 of 2 By Robert Chambers</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/02/15/whose-paradigm-counts-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Chambers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expanding Paradigms In my first post in this two part guest series, I presented an account of the contrast between ‘things’ and ‘people’ as it was framed in my 1997 book Whose Reality Counts? and as many people in the development sector still perceive it. As numerous responses – both here and on other fora [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1969&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Can Crowds Outperform Aid Experts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When does crowdsourcing work best? New research from the Institute for Human Development provides answers which may be of relevance for aid projects and programmes. There has been a lot written, spoken and blogged about the power of crowds in making decisions. In James Surowiecki&#8216;s bestselling Wisdom of Crowds, published in 2004, the central thesis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1593&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity and the Wealth of Nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complexity scientists have long argued for the use of concepts such as nonlinearity and interconnectednesss to better understand economic phenomena, including growth, market failures and crashes. Ongoing research at the Harvard Center for International Development is taking this area of work forward in very promising ways. In some ways, as Tim Harford has argued, the notion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1554&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with leading complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/11/04/an-interview-with-leading-complexity-theorist-stuart-kauffman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Kaufmann, evolutionary biologist and an early recipient of a McArthur genius grant, was closely involved in the origins of the Sante Fe Institute &#8211; ground zero for many of today&#8217;s leading complexity theorists. Earlier this year he was interviewed by Joshua E Brown, and his thoughts make interesting reading for all those with an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=639&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SciDev: Development Needs Systems Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weeks editorial on SciDev, the leading source of authoritative information on science and technology for development, focused on the need for &#8216;holistic approaches&#8217; in development. Specifically, it argued that developing countries need more joined-up systems thinking to promote growth and reduce poverty, and that donor agencies needed to find ways of supporting such efforts. One positive move [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1349&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assumptions are the mother of all **** ***</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/09/08/assumptions-are-the-mother-of-all-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s presentation is a thought-provoking, visually stunning video from Jane at Resonance Blog, entitled Complexity and Humanity 2.0. Enjoy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1084&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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