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Global Innovation Week: why creating Silicon-Valley like ecosystems is still an ambition

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

At the recent World Economic Forum, Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, said that, “On a net basis, more jobs were created by small companies and therefore entrepreneurs needed more support, otherwise the situation would get worse.” Hence the growing consensus…

Venture Madness: technology changing economic development

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

At the IEDC annual conference in Philadelphia, USA, last October, I participated in a panel entitled, “Transforming Economies: Economic Development 21.0”. The premise of the debate was based on how technology is transforming economic development in the 21st century, with…

India and Brazil tech innovation visions and priorities for 2014

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

On the global stage, India and Brazil continue to be markets of interest for businesses looking for growth opportunities, particularly in the tech sector. So it’s always interesting to hear about policy initiatives regarding technology and innovation in those countries. …

Bringing Africa into the global ecosystem

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

Africa is a continent where not much is known by the rest of the world about what goes on in technology innovation. If you are asked about innovation in Africa, you might think of the Silicon Cape initiative in South…

A set of tools to nurture your own Silicon Valley

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

Around the world, governments are making huge investments in creating their own version of Silicon Valley, in the hope it stimulates innovation-based growth in their economies, and hence generating wealth. This money is often spent in developing ecosystems of science…

India’s tech cities and innovation ecosystems: are they nearly there yet?

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

In many places around the world, the topics of innovation, start-up ecosystems and entrepreneurship have become common and fashionable areas of discussion. Almost everyone has debates around how to encourage innovation, how to grow the start-up ecosystem, how entrepreneurship can…

Internet of things: the next platform for global innovation

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

The internet of things is likely to be a key technology driving innovation over the next few years. It’s a theme that’s grown over the last couple of years, and now in January 2013 we saw the launch of the…

Global innovation agenda will grow stronger in 2013

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

As we begin a new year, we’d like to wish all our followers a happy and innovative new year in 2013. The past year, 2012, involved some major activities in the evolution of The Next Silicon Valley, and our visibility…

New York’s Silicon Alley vs London’s Tech City: which is better?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

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 panel debate held in London and New York simultaneously this…

Crowd-sourced online learning: is this the innovation that education now needs?

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

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, and in the USA we’ve seen the success of online…

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