I sat down with Jon Bruner in New York City this week to talk about where innovation happens. Concentration still seems to matter, even in a networked world, but concentration of what? Minds, money, markets, or manufacturing know-how?
People we mention in this episode include Brady Forrest, Kipp Bradford and Alistair Croll.
Links for things we mention:
- Highway One, hardware incubator.
- WeChat, fast growing voice chat application from Tencent.
- International Startup Festival
By the way, we clearly aren’t the only ones making comparisons between Silicon Valley and Detroit. Seems to be entering the zeitgeist. However, if you are interested in Detroit as a model for the unraveling of a dominant concentration of innovation, pick up a copy of the classic American Odyssey by Robert Conot or the more recent Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff.
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