This is silly. There are more Eastern "innovators" than Western ones. They just prefer to operate out of San Jose and Boston. Globalization works both ways, you

This is silly. There are more Eastern "innovators" than Western ones. They just prefer to operate out of San Jose and Boston. Globalization works both ways, you know. Why do the "innovators" make their homes in the USA? That's where the startup hubs are! http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html And we should distrust the word "innovator", which tends to be awarded to the engineers with the best English-language marketing team. When a product engineer in Malaysia invents a technique that doubles manufacturing efficiency, she is "skilled"; when an engineer living in Sunnyvale develops a web-based social network he's an "innovator".