By: Richard Florida and Ian Hathaway HBR We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. ecosystems, such as Silicon Valley, Seattle,... read more →
By: Robert J. Samuelson Washington Post Globalization strikes again. The latest target is entrepreneurship. For decades, promoting start-up firms through venture capital and other methods of business investment seemed a... read more →
A friend recently pointed me to a July study by Oliver Wyman titled Assessing the Impact of Big Tech on Venture Investment. I was immediately intrigued because this is a... read more →
Today I have a major new study out for the Center for American Entrepreneurship, called Rise of the Global Startup City: The New Map of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. The... read more →
By: Caroline Baum MarketWatch There was a time when the U.S. was the only game in town when it came to attracting venture capital for startup businesses. No longer. The... read more →
By: Richard Florida CityLab Lately, there’s been talk of a shift in innovation and high-tech startups from expensive, increasingly unaffordable hubs like Silicon Valley to more affordable, up-and-coming locales such... read more →
By: Richard Florida and Ian Hathaway The Wall Street Journal While recent headlines have blared about the Trump administration’s multi-front trade war with Canadian dairy farmers, Chinese manufacturers and the... read more →
By: Leigh Buchanan Inc. Magazine Worried about your competition? A piece of advice: Keep your eyes on cities abroad. High-growth startups cluster in urban areas. And urban areas around the globe--from Berlin... read more →
By: Sarah McBride Bloomberg The U.S. is losing its edge as the world’s foremost destination for venture capital investment, a new study shows, with U.S. startups capturing a rapidly declining share of global dollars... read more →
By: Anna Hensel VentureBeat Year after year, startups in U.S. cities like San Francisco, New York, and Boston continue to raise an unprecedented amount of venture capital — but so... read more →