THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE WITH TWITTER & CREATING VALUE FROM GREEK GEOGRAPHYMcGill GLOBAL COMMERCE LECTURE

October 31, 2012

JIM DE WILDE

www.jimdewilde.net @jimdewilde

HANSEATIC LEAGUE (CHARTER CITIES ?)

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN IN THE 18TH CENTURY

STRING OF PEARLS HTTP://HGWORLD.BLOGSPOT.CA/2009/01/STRING-OF-CHINESE-PEARLS.HTML

GREECE RESTRUCTURING – THE PORT OF PIREAUS http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/business/global/chin

ese-company-sets-new-rhythm-in-port-of-piraeus.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Kemal Dervis http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/466688d2-a8c2-11e0-b877-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2AVi5LQtc

THE REMAKING OF THE WORLD ECONOMY Raghuram Rajan http://blogs.chicagobooth.edu/faultlines BURSA MALAYSIA http://www.bursamalaysia.com/market/ Does Catalonia need Spain

http://ecfr.eu/content/profile/C19/ Qatar restructures European banking http

://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/world/middleeast/qatar-shows-faith-in-europe.html

Indonesia as destination for private equity http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204276304577261803114708294.htm

GLOBAL GEOPOLITICS

Future Atlas and Political Geography MALI IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU THINK

China’s foreign policy dilemma THE COAST IS NOT LIKE THE INTERIOR

U.S. foreign policy dilemma THE COAST IS NOT LIKE THE INTERIOR

Malaysia, Brazil and Turkey CIVETs and BRICs India looks north, India looks east, India looks west a

DUBAI-oriented strategy or a SINGAPORE-oriented strategy

THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE WITH GOOGLE (Hargeisa, Benghazi)

FINLAND PLANS A CURRENCY (From Bruges to Athens)

THE REINVENTION OF GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS: SWF AND VALUE CREATION

GREEK PORTS SPANISH POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING CHINESE VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTS OVERSEAS FRUGAL INNOVATION REDEFINES INDIA STARTUP CHILE TIMBUKTU CHRONICLES INDONESIAN VENTURE CAPITAL WAMDA ANGOLAN SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS

LINKING ENTREPRENEURS TO NEW SOURCES OF CAPITAL Venture capital as the new value creation What went wrong – how did the quants take control of

capital markets? Linking global innovation (is there a global innovation

hub that is virtual) How much growth can come from closes Tunisian Yahoo,

Zambian Amazon.

WHAT DOES VALUE CREATION LOOK LIKE FROM DALIAN? Can we build a port ? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-21/china-s-wan

da-group-to-buy-amc-cinema-chain-for-2-6-billion.html

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-17/chinas-next-export-venture-capital

For more on INNOSPRING,  see http://www.innospring.net/ 

For more on WESTSUMMIT CAOITAL,  see http://www.westsummitcap.com/.

WHAT DOES VALUE CREATION LOOK LIKE FROM HARGEISA? http://somalilandpress.com/vc4africa-extends-tech-suppo

rt-to-somaliland-24493

http://vc4africa.biz/blog/2012/09/27/top-40-startups-selected-for-demo-africa-2012/

http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.ca/2012/05/maker-movement-starts-to-attract.html

WHAT DOES VALUE CREATION LOOK LIKE FROM OULU http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/05/17/oulu-selects-but

terfly-ventures-for-new-e35-m-early-stage-startup-fund

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/14cbb94e-1ebb-11e2-b906-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2AVi5LQtc

REINVENTING GLOBAL MARKETS

SWFs key to longterm investment All resource revenues should go to best practice SWFs How does China invest in new value creation? Does Digital Arabia become a new asset class? M-commerce makes Africa a rapid growth zone Global mobility redefines competitive advantage Connectedness becomes a competitive advantage

(Montreal? Toronto? Vancouver? Waterloo? Saskatoon?) Arable land and agricultural productivity change the

geopolitics of the world

GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS - BENGHAZI AS DIGITAL DUBROVNIK Every time a river is dammed, value is shifted Commercializing knowledge and designing new

organizations Ignore colonial borders, it is about cities and social capital

from national groups (think DUBAI, think KOCHI, think SHENZHEN, think PENANG, and of course SINGAPORE, HONG KONG)

Understand the financing of infrastructure (“We are still paying for the Suez Canal”?)

NEW VALUE CREATION AND POST-INFORMATION AGE CAPITALISM Value is created by entrepreneurs Cloned venture capital (Tunisian online commerce) Arable land and capital formation SWFs and new economic actors Venture capital (Chinese SWFs and the new capitalism)