Salim Ismail: “Spain is perceived in Silicon Valley as a country of creative people”

There are people who reflect on the significance of the changes they see around them, and then there are people who decide to do something about it. Salim Ismail is one of them. He was born in Hyderabad, India in 1965, grew up in Toronto, Canada, has lived in six other countries around the world, is now living in Canada again and in the future who knows. The where has never conditioned his determination to make technology the lever for a better world.

This serial entrepreneur, recognised worldwide for founding Singularity University in 2008, has a fantastic perspective on the opportunity of the present moment, on the great transformations that are about to take place and on the strengths of a country like Spain as it enters a new era. The reader will be able to appreciate that his or her perception of Spain’s potential competitive advantages as an ‘entrepreneurial nation’ does not exactly coincide with the discourse that we sometimes try to project from our country. No matter how much we reformulate the question, in your opinion Spain is a country with a good climate, good living conditions and people with a close and creative personality. What if we were to limit our positioning as a potential pole of international talent to these assets, and forget the rest? And what Spain really needs is more and better ambassadors for innovation made in Spain?…

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