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Duplicating Silicon Valley?

Name: Duplicating Silicon Valley?
Uploaded: 2013-05-10T21:09:14.564Z
Duration: 3 min 21 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Cities and countries try to replicate the northern California recipe

Since the 1960s, innovators have flocked to towns such as Palo Alto in the San Francisco Bay Area to build start-ups in the hope of changing the world – and making a fortune in the process. Now cities from Kansas to London are trying to find ways to attract young tech entrepreneurs and replicate the Valley's technology formula.

May 10, 2013

Filmed and Produced by Christopher Booker. Additional footage from Getty Images.