It would be naïve for anyone to think that recreating Silicon Valley exactly would be a French goal. Trying to achieve similar success in a more centralised, government-driven way sounds much more plausible.
Such an approach has been unsuccessful when tried elsewhere (at least by the number of places declared to be the new Silicon Valley and never heard from again), but the French do seem oddly better at achieving success in a statist fashion than many other places are.
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It would be naïve for anyone to think that recreating Silicon Valley exactly would be a French goal. Trying to achieve similar success in a more centralised, government-driven way sounds much more plausible.
Such an approach has been unsuccessful when tried elsewhere (at least by the number of places declared to be the new Silicon Valley and never heard from again), but the French do seem oddly better at achieving success in a statist fashion than many other places are.