The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies

For a long time, the US has been the source of virtually all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars, and more. And most of the tech companies that created and monetized these technologies are also based in the US. In this book, Mehran Gul, winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize, asks: is the situation changing?

Less than ten years ago, Chinese technology companies were treated with contempt and complacency. Now, alarm bells are ringing. However, while experts debate how the technological battle between the US and China will unfold, another question is equally interesting: are there other countries like China? Countries that no one takes seriously now, but which may turn out to be serious competitors sooner than we think?

The geography of innovation is changing. There are now many more expensive tech companies in the world, growing much faster and in many more places than ever before. This book is about those places.