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Re:Steve Jobs and America's decline by polymatter on Saturday December 03, 2011 @08:55AM (#3307739)
True, some places will have a greater than average number. But the implication does not work the other way, that people from that place have a natural tendency for innovation. Nor the inverse, that because my parents were not on US soil when I was born does not preclude me from being innovative.
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Re:Steve Jobs and America's decline by yummyfajitas on Saturday December 03, 2011 @09:39AM (#3307815)
The claim is that the US has more innovative business leaders, not that innovation is something intrinsic to US-born people.

As I said: "If innovative people attract each other, you'd certainly expect some places to have a greater than average number." I'm implying that the US could have a disproportionate number of innovative business leaders because the innovative people in India or Greece leave and come to the US.

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