-----Original Message----- From: Scott Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:04:35 To:David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [IP] Bangalore: Silicon Valley or Coolie Valley
This reminds me about the comments in the US on Japan's electronic industry during the 70s. The idea then was that Japan only copied innovation from elsewhere and, because they had no culture of invention, they would never be a threat to the US consumer electronics industry. I believe that the technology marketplace is substantially different than it was in 1933. Thus, for an unknown company in a country without a reputation for software innovation to try to break into the market would be difficult at best. However, it seems to me that if you bring that many skilled people into one area, it won't be too long before someone (and in fact several people) decide to divert a bit of the focus of their company to an idea instead of a contract. And it wouldn't be hard to divert a substantial piece of the "overseas" contract industry to an innovation model once the risk had been proved low enough. Best, Scott On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:45, Dave Farber wrote: > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [rediff.com] - Bangalore: Silicon Valley or Coolie Valley > To: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: -ENOENT > > An interesting article. > > http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/mar/03guest1.htm > > Bangalore: Silicon Valley or Coolie Valley? > > G V Dasarathi | March 01, 2004 | 13:45 IST > > Politicians, bureaucrats and residents of Bangalore take pride in the fact > that they live in what they call the Silicon Valley of the East. The city > is considered high tech because of the number of software and software > services companies located here. > > But is Bangalore really Silicon Valley? [...] -- Scott Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
