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From: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/01/ecosystem-101-the-six-necessary-categories-to-build-the-next-silicon-valley/ I was a resident mentor at 500 Startups during the last intake and all sorts of interesting visitors come through the door. Among them came journalists from Japan and South Korea who were asking:   “Can our country be the next Silicon Valley?” The topic is not new (see here articles on   China ,   Japan ,   Japan ,   South Korea ,   Singapore , Singapore ) and investors are also pretty excited about it (see Sequoia’s   latest round ). As I was answering by drawing from my 12 years across Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia), I had a sort of epiphany and started to write down the criteria I thought composed an ecosystem. I then proceeded to score several markets using those, which brought interesting comparisons. The initial draft expanded into this column. It is far from perfect and comments to improve it ar...