A collection of resources about global startup hubs and innovation clusters, exploring their role in fostering entrepreneurship, collaboration, and economic growth. Key themes include ecosystem development, funding opportunities, technology transfer, and the impact of cultural diversity on innovation.
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Alternatives to Silicon Valley, Globally. A collection of resources about global startup hubs and innovation clusters, exploring the ecosystems, networks, and trends driving entrepreneurship and technological advancement around the world.
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Score another one for Seoul while Silicon Valley slides. "South Korea remained the global-innovation gold medalist for the fifth consecutive yea...
Paris and Madrid climb, while London faces new pressure in the evolving global startup landscape. Amsterdam loses ground. Europe's startup ecosyst...
Key Takeaways With 793 unicorns as of July 2, 2025, the U.S. has more private firms worth at least $1 billion than the next 19 countries combin...
Spain. Sunshine in Malaga Valley. But will Málaga fall victim to its own success? | Europe
It models itself on Stanford, and is in the tech hotspot of Hangzhou | China
Silicon lowlands. ASML, a mighty Dutch tech firm, is at the heart of a critical supply chain | Business
The playing field of corporate location is changing, driven by new digital technologies and the shift to remote work. The authors outline the struc...
The government is favoring firms at the heart of a tech transformation. We crunch the numbers on the country’s most valuable startups | Business
Top 5 Egyptian startup developments in 2017.
This digital twin is turning an area of Milan into Italy's new tech capital.
Hello World’s host Ashlee Vance traveled to Akademgorodok to see what this science city looks like in 2016. Where the labs of yesteryear have star...
Beijing hopes to attract more technology experts, entrepreneurs and scientists to help its development.
TechCrunch, 2017; "Poland has worked diligently over the past decade to become an entrepreneurial powerhouse. Once home to businesses focused prima...
Israel Tel Aviv #7 *Ecosystem rank and metrics for Tel Aviv
TechCrunch, 2017, "Over the past year, it seems that Chinese companies have gone from scouting the region to actively owning chunks of it.
Back in 2011, when South Korea won its longshot bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, the country wasn’t widely recognized as a destination for ski...
A banking centre seeks to reinvent itself - Tales from the crypto-nation ON A clear day, sunset over Lake Zug is magnificent. Snow-dusted mounta...
Facing the uncertainty of life in post-Soviet Bulgaria, 18-year-old Vladimir Davchev moved to the United States in the late 1990s to pursue his edu...
Charlemagne: the perky Portuguese ANTONIO COSTA, Portugal’s affable prime minister, greets your columnist with a broad grin as he settles his he...
The biggest challenges to the Bay Area’s dominance in tech will likely come from overseas.
The new geography of innovation “LIKE Florence in the Renaissance.” That is a common description of what it is like to live in Silicon Valley. A...
Five years ago, no startups from Latin America were participating in prestigious U.S. accelerators. It seemed that Latin America was not yet on any...
Stockholm has birthed prolific tech brands like Skype, Spotify, Minecraft and Candy Crush Saga, making the Swedish capital a hotbed for start-ups.
As the U.S. feels less welcoming to enterprising immigrants, Toronto—North America’s fastest-growing tech market—is doubling down on its diversity.
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies,...
See where the global startup revolution is taking place - Report by Richard Florida America’s long-held singular dominance of startup and ventu...
Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-HQ’d company builder that invests in individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” to enable them to found new startups, is ...
A new study finds evidence that Jane Jacobs was right about the dynamic and innovative qualities spurred by living in dense, urban neighborhoods.
Shopify's Tobi Lütke knows the secret to massive scale. It's be a platform. Build a virtuous cycle and you’ll emerge the biggest winner of all.
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