Urban planners the world over yearn to replicate the success
of Silicon Valley: witness Thames Valley (England) and Silicon Oasis
(Dubai), to name just two of these attempts. Invariably, these well-intentioned
efforts fail for the simple reason that they’re trying to replicate
the wrong model. Silicon Valley is too new, too now, to glean lessons
from. Those hoping to launch the world’s next great innovation hub would be
better off looking to an older, even more remarkable genius cluster:
Renaissance Florence. The Italian city-state produced an explosion of great art
and brilliant ideas, the likes of which the world has not seen before or since.
This hothouse of innovation offers lessons as relevant and valuable today as
they were 500 years ago. Here are a few of them ...
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