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November 9, 2013 02:13 pm GMT
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Grenoble Is the Powerful Tech Hub You Never Heard Of
On arrival in France at Lyon’s Saint Exupéry Airport, you wouldn't picture the Alps city of Grenoble as a major French tech hub or a challenger to Paris.
The taxi driver tells me the city is more than 60 miles away. The journey will take more than an hour. Compare that to the 30 minute-drive from San Francisco airport to Silicon Valley. Grenoble already broke a cardinal tech cluster rule: easy transportation links to the rest of the world
But there’s something about the wry grin and sparkling eyes of the driver that disarms me. It’s as if he's saying, "Don't worry about it. You have something to look forward to." Read more...
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