by Nitin Dahad In March 2011, on my first ever visit to Latin America, I discovered that there was an emerging startup scene in Brazil, in places like Sao Paulo,…
In watching successful innovation clusters evolve around the world, we’re beginning to see the theory of creating an innovation ecosystem being successfully deployed in practice, with appropriate localization according to…
by Nitin Dahad Over the years, governments have looked to emulate the success of Silicon Valley in California, USA, in their own countries, and in that process, many places around…
‘Innovation’ has become an all too common word, with almost everyone in the business world using it to develop a process to develop and transform new ideas into improved business…
Sometimes labeled ‘Silicon Desert’, the state of Arizona in the USA has seen a tech sector explosion, with multinational companies increasing their profile in the region, supported by a growing…
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,…
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 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…
The money’s there and now the Middle East is looking at developing an innovation ecosystem to create its own version of Silicon Valley. As we often see in The Next…