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The next Silicon Valley is everywhere: join the debate in Toronto, Istanbul – and here

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Nitin Dahad |

by Nitin Dahad The ‘next’ Silicon Valley is everywhere, with discussions about how to nurture innovation-based economic development dominating the conversation, as it will in Toronto and Istanbul next month.…

A tale of two (Silicon) Valleys

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

by Richard Wallace “Silicon Valley is not a place but a state of mind,” legendary venture capitalist John Doerr famously observed. As a state of mind the Valley’s a destination…

Is ‘Silicon Desert’ the next Silicon Valley?

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

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…

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,…

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. …

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…

Silicon Valley Summit ponders: can government and big firms hinder innovation?

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

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…

Learning from Silicon Valley

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

I’ve just returned from a week in Silicon Valley. As always, I get a lot of inspiration from the way things work and happen in the Valley. It’s appropriate then,…

Creating successful innovation ecosystems – the rainforest analogy

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Richard Wallace | 1 Comment

We seem to hear more and more about innovation being the key to economic growth around the world. And everyone is talking about how to create successful innovation systems. Not…