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China has announced the creation of a 200 billion yuan ($30bn) venture capital fund to invest in new and innovative technology. There's only one catch: it is, of course, run by the state. The fund's creation was announced by the country's state assets regulator and the money comes from other state-run companies, including its …

  1. Captain DaFt

    But of course,

    "Dozens of countries have tried – and largely failed – to recreate the extraordinary culture and innovation attitude of Silicon Valley. The post-mortems on most of those efforts have concluded that the over-involvement of government agencies and the existence of too many rules and regulations have been behind their lack of success."

    Most countries that tried went the route of insuring taxes will be paid, rules and regs applied along treaty lines to ensure that toes aren't stepped on with other countries and corps.

    China sets itself up as a major stockholder in ventures, so no taxes needed, just profits. And as for regs and treaties?

    The major stockholder (China), and consideration for the largest market (China), dictates how those will be followed.

    Watch out World, this could be a major game changer!

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    China's track record on investments isn't all that great

    There are entire cities built for a million people that are empty, and many other examples of malinvestment. China is growing at a big enough clip that they can weather some rather large amounts of wasted resources, just like Sand Hill Road can weather the occasional dot com bubble.

    Other places in the US have had VC investment but haven't become another Silicon Valley, despite marketers trying to coin terms like "Silicon Alley", "Silicon Beach", "Silicon Prairie" and so forth. If anyone knew and was able to replicate the formula for its success, Silicon Valley wouldn't still be so unique.

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