Naval on why innovation is always geographically concentrated, from Venice to Silicon Valley
naval · x · 2026-11-06
Naval reposts an excerpt from his podcast with Matt Ridley on why innovation clusters geographically: breakthroughs build on "little bits and pieces" from surrounding inventors and tinkerers, so they concentrate intensely — Silicon Valley today, Victorian Britain and the Low Countries before.
Ridley notes every era has had one dominant innovation hub, often to a degree that seems unfair to the rest of the world.
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