During the last decades of the 20th century, Silicon Valley was the unparallelled epicentrerof high-tech innovation.Other regions tried to imitate its success, but none succeeded.France’s Sophia Antipolis, a top-down attempt by the government to create an innovation hub near Cann

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“I want to be a part of it — New York, New York,” Frank Sinatra sang of the city that has attracted so many of the world’s most ambitious people, from artists and performers to businesspeople and bankers. In a sense, this is not a difficult phenomenon to

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Mais oui! As every fifth-grade French student knows, the Internet was invented in Paris.