Some food for thought. An interesting article and report from MIT Technology Review about the ecosystem of silicon valley…
“It’s understandable that so many places around the world want to re-create the economic engine of Silicon Valley, as MIT Technology Review wrote about in its recent business report (“The Next Silicon Valley”). But creating another Silicon Valley will be far harder than anyone imagines. That’s because the Silicon Valley ecosystem is now far more sophisticated than just startups. ”
3 main reasons:
- critical mass of large tech acquisition companies
- large tech companies are used to disruption
- people & culture: large, global, and weird
More of this here: [The Link]