There’s a temptation on the part of many cities to think that a startup culture requires “a top down cluster.” The conventional wisdom is that in order to be successful startups need to be in close proximity to science parks, venture capital and research universities. Vivek Wadwha – the noted Stanford Fellow, Duke, Emory and Harvard Professor (now at Singularity University) – recently argued otherwise as part of the Wall Street Journal’s forum called The Accelerators.  His brief argument is worth reading (here) which he then summarizes in the last ... Read More