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Silicon Valley is often treated as the ultimate template for innovation — the place where software giants were born, where venture capital became a cultural force and where new technologies could move from idea to global impact within a single product cycle. So when Europe looks for its own hubs of innovation, the comparison is inevitable: Is there a European Silicon Valley?
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