New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy rarely misses an opportunity to point out the Garden State once was a hub for innovation — where Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and the incandescent light-bulb, and the birthplace of the transistor that paved the way for modern computers.
“This is a state that was a Silicon Valley before there was a Silicon Valley,” Murphy told a crowd of entrepreneurs at Propelify, a tech festival on the Hoboken Pier in May.
