[dpandey]

If you interpret the title literally, it's probably true. It's not something to worry too much about, however.

Just like the rest of the world starting large universities has rarely had a negative effect on institutions like Oxford, Harvard or MIT, the rest of the world starting innovation center is unlikely to do much negatively to Silicon Valley.

Starting an 'innovation center' and actually creating lots of innovative companies (including some really large ones) are not the same thing at all. In fact, just like IITs are a great feeder into MIT or Stanford, some of the best companies outside Silicon Valley have become a feeder for the SV ecosystem.

I'm not saying it can't happen. I'm just saying quantity is not the same as quality, and quality innovation center is very hard to create without lots of quality people in all parts of the ecosystem.

[devoply]

Silicon Valley has two major things going for it. Talent and money. Asians are intelligent and talented, if they were not they would not be pulling huge work loads in American univerisities. At this point they have lots of capital too as a result of the ascension of the economies in their respective countries. Your comparison of so-called elite universities is a false dichotomy, those work on different rules than technology. Technology does not recognize social status and all that other stuff. Technology belongs to no one and can be acquired by anyone with money and talent.

[seanmcdirmid]

Chinese have won plenty of Nobel prizes, just not when they were in china.

It just isn't about aptitude, or even capital, but society has to be developed and free enough to let innovation happen. Where all the capital (human and financial) has accumulated (China), this simply isn't the case. We will continue to see young Chinese leaving for the west to realize their full potentials.

[homarp]

>society has to be developed and free enough to let innovation happen.

see parallel discussion on "China invents the digital totalitarian state" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13201926

[dpandey]

>Asians are intelligent and talented,

So are Europeans and Latinos and Americans and Arabs and Africans and dolphins.

The discussion isn't about race. It's about creating a culture and ecosystem of innovation. Which even other cities in the US have failed to replicate beyond modest successes.

[xbmcuser]

Your latest election is going to make this more possible than anything. Currently many of the most talented foriegn graduates of us universities stay in the us. But with the current xenophobia more will start leaving specially if they see someplace safer to go to.

[artificial]

Either enforce the laws or eliminate them. The media is fully complicit in fueling narratives with respect to immigration by conflating illegal with legal. Contrary to the spin the permanent resident and naturalization figures being double to quadruple the next country (Germany) shows America welcomes immigrants. Which countries make citizenship and owning a business easier than America?

[xbmcuser]

I am not talking about laws but people's behaviour which Trump's rhetoric is allowing. I understand anti immigration sentiment and with the current world economic situation it is being exasperated. But what the government is saying and how it is saying makes a huge difference no matter what they actually do.

US has always been competitive because of its open immigration tightening it is not going to make much difference as other countries have even tougher immigration. Trump and his equating the color of a person skin with being illegal immigrant is going to hurt the US.

[artificial]

Sounds like an extremely damning quote, where was this claim made? Twitter? I've been searching for it, please link me.