全球7大新兴创业圣地
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当创意遇见资本 你还在寻找下一个硅谷吗？有这种打算的人可不在少数。随着全球经济增长放缓或陷入停滞，公司高管、企业家和投资者都在寻找适合创造原始思维和新业务的温床，希望找到合适的人才和初创企业，给他们自己的公司和投资组合带来更多竞争优势。 《财富》杂志（Fortune ）走遍全球，寻找与旧金山港湾区类似，综合了创造性与资本的城市。首先，我们从全球创新指数【由欧洲工商管理学院（INSEAD）与联合国世界知识产权组织（World Intellectual Property Organization）共同发布】的数据开始，该指数根据包括教育机构与数字基础设施在内的一系列因素对各国进行排名。重要的是，该指数也会关注创新结果——如果某一国家的公司与机构向世界推出了自己的产品或创意，则可以为该国额外加分。 之后，我们将视线转移到在创新领域名列前茅的国家，仔细研究这些国家的城市与社区，这里能够满足公司对人才、好奇心和风险承受能力的需求，而这些因素综合起来可以带来革命性的新产品和服务。北欧国家（有些国家得益于未加入欧元区的决定）在这个类别中占绝大多数。只要这些城市继续推出好的创新成果，很快我们就不必再问：“下一个硅谷在哪儿？”而是会问：“下一个哥本哈根在哪儿？” |
Creativity meets capitalism Looking for the next Silicon Valley? You're not alone. With growth slowing or stagnant in economies around the world, executives, entrepreneurs, and investors are on the hunt for hotbeds of original thinking and new-business creation, in search of people and startups that might give their own companies and portfolios a competitive edge. Fortune scoured the globe for cities that share the San Francisco Bay Area's potent combination of creativity and capitalism. We started with data from the Global Innovation Index (co-published by Insead and the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization), which ranks countries based on a number of factors, including educational institutions and digital infrastructure. Crucially, the index also looks at results -- it essentially assigns extra credit to countries whose companies and institutions push their products and ideas out into the world. We then looked closely at the cities and communities within the top countries that were leading the charge on innovation -- the places that are especially hospitable to companies seeking the mix of talent, curiosity, and risk taking that leads to game-changing new products and services. Northern European countries (some perhaps reaping the benefits of being outside the eurozone) dominated the list. If these cities keep churning out results, soon we won't be asking, "Where's the next Silicon Valley?" Instead the question on everyone's lips may be: "Where's the next Copenhagen?" |
