The New Geography of Innovation

by Mehran Gul

ISBN: 9780008327804

Published: 2025-07-03

The New Geography of Innovation tells the story of the rise of new technology companies from across the world through remarkable case-studies from different countries. Its focus is on innovation and breakthroughs: where and why places experience sudden technological advancement and how this is now a global game. For fifty years, Silicon Valley has been spinning out new technologies and developing fast-growing, high value, billion plus dollar tech companies - such as Apple, Facebook/Meta, Microsoft and Google. Companies such as this, and their like established 'the Valley' as the centre for the most rapid creation of wealth in human history. But now its secrets are spreading elsewhere. Is the Valley still the world's tech epicentre when the geography of innovation is shifting? In this book Mehran Gul, a World Economic Forum expert on the emergence of new generation big technology, traces the shift from a system where many products were designed in the United States but assembled in...