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Magnifique photo de NYC plongé dans l'obscurité. C'est très impressionnant de voir NY dans cette situation rare. Les rues sont également désertes, par le manque de lumière et de transports.
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Economic diversification: Reimagining the future | The Economist
“THAT city will, in the course of time, become the granary of the world, the emporium of commerce, the seat of manufactures, the focus of great monied operations,” predicted DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York in 1824. He was speaking about the effects of the Erie Canal, which connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River. Originally derided as “Clinton's folly”, the canal helped to open up the west, allowing New York to benefit enormously from an explosion of trade. Within 15 years of the opening, New York was the busiest port in America, moving more than Boston, Baltimore and New Orleans combined. The plan to open an applied sciences university campus in New York City, reckons Seth Pinsky, who heads New York's Economic Development Corporation, is an “Erie Canal moment”.
The city's embrace of high-tech has already begun. Tech clusters have emerged in Manhattan's Flatiron District and Brooklyn's Dumbo, home to firms like STELLAService and Etsy. Venture-capital firms and angel investors have been looking at New York more seriously than they once did. Henry Blodget, of Business Insider, notes “the financing ecosystem has also gotten very well developed, from late-stage private equity right down to angel investing.” Some $1.2 billion was invested by venture-capital firms in New York in 2010. The Big Apple even overtook Massachusetts in venture-capital funding for internet and tech start-ups, making it second only to Silicon Valley. And in the third quarter of last year, it surpassed it in venture capital in all categories. Between 2005 and 2010 employment in New York's high-tech sector grew by nearly 30%. Google alone has about 1,200 engineers in the city.
Très bon article qui résume la situation des incubateurs de NYC. On y voit comment la ville parie sur l'innovation à travers les communautés et le lien fort avec les universités de NY. Silicon Alley? une réalité méconnue?