When we first started The Next Silicon Valley several years ago, it was based on places trying to create their own Silicon Valley like innovation ecosystem. We’ve spent plenty of time at conferences like the Global Innovation Summit debating the ingredients of a successful innovation ecosystem, given talks on economic development 2.0 at IEDC conferences, and on the importance of collaboration and of technology enabling that collaboration.
Now, it’s no longer about the label or the question that we are often asked, ‘where is the next Silicon Valley’. Instead, the debate has moved on, since everyone is now living in a ‘Silicon somewhere’ as this article points out.
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