TechCrunch: "Why China Isn’t 'The Next Silicon Valley'” (170+ comments)

Click here for the post by Sarah Lacy on June 1, 2009

Since I got home from China last week, I’ve found myself in a lot of conversations where phrases like “the next Silicon Valley,” or “just like Silicon Valley used to be,” keep coming up. But while China is swimming in capital and littered with start-ups, I’m going to argue it’s not the next Silicon Valley. In fact, it’s something far different than I’ve ever seen before. If you think about it, Silicon Valley doesn’t really move as fast as people say it does. Sure, the rest of the U.S. business world may feel out-lapped by the pattern of companies going from nothing to billions in a few years, but those start-ups are mostly the outliers...

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[Ilonka]

I think The Next Silicon Valley is gonna be in India or Malaysia. The developments are growing very fast over there. And the production costs are very low. More and more Europian company's go over there.