{"id":363,"date":"2014-05-29T17:16:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T09:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2014-05-29T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T09:16:58","slug":"shenzhen-startup-scene-welcome-world-capital-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/shenzhen-startup-scene-welcome-world-capital-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhen startup scene: welcome to the world capital of makers"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were waiting for a sign that China<\/strong> has changed and is an amazing huge thing adapting to the new industrial revolution<\/strong>, there you go.<\/p>\n

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Take what was a fishing village 30 years ago<\/strong>, with 200-300 000 inhabitants. Create a special economic zone to attract migrants from all over the country. Make it the biggest factory-city in the world.<\/strong> Wait a few years. When you feel the internet wave hitting the hardware and manufacturing industry, turn it into a capital city for prototypers and makers of all sorts<\/strong>. Add new innovative stuff, from open-innovation into life sciences to think tanks.<\/p>\n

Shenzhen,\u00a0from the fishing village to the hardware startup capital<\/h2>\n

Well, that’s quite a series of shortcuts but you get the bigger picture: Shenzhen, China, is increasingly recognized as the city in the world where creating hardware and real stuff is not only possible, but cheaper and better than anywhere else.<\/strong><\/p>\n