more on Bangalore: Silicon Valley or Coolie Valley

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Alexander <salex () dsl cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:04:35 
To:David Farber <dave () farber net>
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 <suresh () hserus net>
> Subject: [rediff.com] - Bangalore: Silicon Valley or Coolie Valley
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> 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?
[...]
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Scott Alexander <salex () dsl cis upenn edu>

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