New York’s Silicon Alley vs London’s Tech City: which is better?
In the USA, New York’s ‘Silicon Alley’ often gets compared to Silicon Valley in California, so it was interesting to see a different comparison being made as part of a…
Year: 2012
Crowd-sourced online learning: is this the innovation that education now needs?
The further education sector is going through significant change. In the UK, the universities’ applications system UCAS has just reported an eight percent drop in university applications for 2013 entry,…
The future of mobile innovation – this is just the beginning
If you talk to anybody who looks at trends and the future of technology, almost everyone talks about three key sectors that will see further innovation and widespread adoption: mobile…
Bright ideas driving public sector innovation in austere times
The focus of many western governments is very single-minded: to reduce public expenditure in order to reduce financial deficits, resulting in sever cuts in public services. They should therefore take…
Is there more to India’s poor global innovation ranking?
Over the last few months, The Next Silicon Valley has worked closely with various innovation and science park conferences around the world, and noticed the distinct absence of India from…
Innovation and technology’s role in producing most digital Olympics games ever
As reported widely after the event, the London 2012 Olympics proved to be one of the most digital Olympics ever, and it’s clear that mobile technology was one of the…
UK communications industry’s gold medal during London 2012
– a personal view from Carolyn Kimber Here we are, in the void between the Olympics and the Paralympics, so I thought it a good time to report back on…
Could location become irrelevant for innovation ecosystems?
Innovation is now the new buzzword that is on everyone’s lips. Policymakers and governments are all talking about innovation as the key to unlocking economic growth. Countries and organizations around…
GIS 2012 Day 2: trust is key to collaboration
by Nishant Dahad After two days at the Global Innovation Summit, when it comes to talking about how innovation ecosystems can be fostered, a common theme that a number of…
Silicon Valley Summit ponders: can government and big firms hinder innovation?
by Nishant Dahad The 2012 Global Innovation Summit in San Jose, Calif. began yesterday afternoon, after attracting guests from 40 different countries, with a ‘Keynote Fireside Chat’ on entrepreneurship and…