Silicon Valley still remains the hub of the world’s most dominant innovation “empire” – a location of a thriving innovation ecosystem where innovation centers cluster. However, as the innovation center phenomenon has continued to spread globally, a number of new ‘empires’ have emerged where
innovation centers are flourishing.
From July 2015 (when our previous research was published) to February 2016, 56 new innovation centers have opened in 20 countries and 11 more centers are planned to open soon.