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VC Victor Hwang: How To Create The Next Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

Q: What role can, or should, government play in helping create the next Silicon Valley? Even if you remove legal barriers between people and allow them to interact, they are still separated by distances caused by geography, lack of trust, inefficient social networks and differences in culture and language.

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The Secret Sauce of a Successful Smart City

Austin Startup

If a city wants to truly be a Smart City — it must take action to develop a targeted and coordinated approach for integrating equity and inclusion strategically across the scope of all municipal government policies, programs, practice, and operations. Under a light governance model, city leaders set guardrails for the citizens to work within.

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Build Your Own Silicon Valley? | Vivek Wadwha

Campus Entrepreneurship

Those people have to be connected to one another and to universities by information-sharing social networks. They commonly tout Silicon Valley and North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park as examples of the success of government-supported clusters. It simply doesn’t work that way.