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Innovation and entrepreneurship often conjure images of Silicon Valley and startups growing out of garages. But this sort of creativity is found all over the world, with innovators operating in black markets and informal economies and developing original solutions to many and diverse challenges. What does innovation look like at the margins of business and society? What lessons can we learn from the practices of hackers, pirates, gang members and dissidents, and how can we apply these ideas to formal markets? Alexa Clay will share stories of the underground innovators that make up what she calls the Misfit Economy. Speaker Alexa Clay is Co-founder of the League of Intrapreneurs. Jason Rissman, Managing Director of OpenIDEO, moderates the discussion. For more information about this event please visit: http://www.worldaffairs.org/events/event/1486