The Economist looks to Informatics for the low down on the global maker scene. Silvia Lindtner of the University of California, Irvine, and Fudan University in Shanghai, who follows the startup scene in China, is not surprised. The two sides complement each other, she says. The founders of hardware startups, often steeped in the open-source culture, partner with factories rooted in the Chinese culture of shanzhai, which translates as “mountain stronghold”. It used to mean pirated electronic goods but now stands for open-source manufacturing. owl.li/sQzg1
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:50:28 +0000
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