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Serendipity City Statements: Sendai

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 by Jon Grant

Following on from the workshop that was undertaken with several creative thinkers here in the city of Sendai, based around the concept of serendipity influencing creativty in a city, we have put together the following statements:
- We believe that serendipity works better in a small to medium sized city. Tangible centre, better networking with people

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Sendai: A Serendipity City?

Saturday, May 8th, 2010 by Jon Grant

Tomorrow, I embark on my journey to the Japanese city of Sendai, where I will be helping to facilitate GloNet as an “Innovation Champion”. The idea behind GloNet is as compelling as it is ambitious: To create an event which shifts away from the single city model to one that allow delegates from different parts

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