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My view of innovation and entrepreneurship has been coloured by living in the US. The Facebook IPO is the culmination of the archetypal American entrepreneurial journey; the college dropout makes it big in their early 20s as a visionary founder. When I started this research, I have to confess I was looking for the same thing in China. But I’ve learnt that Chinese entrepreneurs are a bit different.
Metaphors are a great way of giving someone a basic sense of what something is very quickly. It’s just that beyond that, they’re not really very helpful. And in the aforementioned cases, they leave you with the impression that there’s nothing new in China; everything’s just a copy of something from elsewhere, but a bit more, well, Chinese. But, What’s happening here isn’t the same as in the West and it may well ultimately be at least as successful.