北京和硅谷在创新上的差异

最近看到这篇文章，英文的，觉得写得真是好呀，老外分析的真是透彻，忍不住翻译了一下。

北京和硅谷主要的不同不是天空的颜色，而是北京的年轻人谈论的都是买房子，买车和结婚，而硅谷的年轻人谈论的却是改变世界。

我们经常在报纸上或网络上看见某家硅谷公司价值超10亿美金，我们也经常看见许多著名的美国互联网IT公司，如Google，Facebook，Amazon...

人们一直在纳闷为什么这些公司这么有创新能力，与此同时在别的地方，比如中国北京，却看不见什么世界级的IT公司。

什么差异造成的呢？是美国人比其他地方的人更聪明么？应该不是。

在中国，人们正在变的越来越焦躁不安，因为他们必须去努力争取的是有个住的地方，有辆车子开。

他们有很大的生存压力，他们现在正处于追求高物资享受的阶段。

他们并不能花更多的时间或者也不愿意花时间去想，一些短时间内不容易实现的东西，他们对短期兴趣想的更多一些。

同时北京的创新环境也不好，在北京人们并不鼓励创新。

公司也不愿意冒风险投入人力物力，去研发可能失败的，却具有创新性的事物，因为他们不想失败，他们更愿意花钱去从别人那复制一些东西，因为这样更快速也更便宜。

更坏的是新公司很难生存，投资者都不愿投资跟他们没有关系的公司，因为他们并不信任这些公司。

创新的政策制度也不令人满意，政府没有完善的政策法规来保护创新，他们也没有完善的规划把创新产品化，市场化。

而在硅谷，人们生活在另外一个完全不同的世界里，人们不需要去为明天在哪住担忧，也不用想我得挣多少钱才能结婚。

他们把时间花在他们感兴趣的事情上，他们可以自由的选择学习什么东西。

这里创新环境也很完善，公司通常都愿意在创新点上投资，他们有这样的基因，他们因创新而骄傲。

他们喜欢自己创造东西，同时他们也不太担心结果，他们更愿意做长期的投资。

如果你有一个足够吸引人的想法，会有许多人愿意投资你，所以在这里人们创建公司很容易，即使你失败了，也没关系，他们不想失败，但是他们接受失败。

中国还在经历高速的经济增长，许多人还在为改善生活而拼搏。

在未来，当人们都能买得起房子和车子，他们或许会把注意力转移到精神层面上来。到那时，或许才是中国创新的春天。

但是有一点不能否认，就是现在中国的创新环境需要改善。

原文

The fundamental difference between Beijing and Silicon Valley is not the sky color, but on one side the
young people are talking about buying a new house,a new car and getting married, while on the other side
young people are talking about how to change the world.
Now and then we can read from the newspaper or the Internet that a Silicon Valley company is valued over
1 billion US dollars. Also we can see many famous US IT rands on the Internet such as Google,
Facebook,Twitter, Amazon... People are still wondering about why companies are so creative. While in
other places such as China, we cannot see world class IT companies. What makes the difference?
Are American people smarter than people in the rest of the world? Not exactly.
In China, people are becoming more and more anxious as they have to fight for a place to stay, a car to drive.
They have high living pressures, they are now in a phase of pursuing material richness. They can not spare
much time and don't want to spend time on thinking about something which are not easy to get implemented
in a short period of time. They are more concerning about short term interest.
Also the innovation environment is also not healthy, people are not encouraged to innovate here, companies
also don't want to get the risk of investing on innovating something that may fail. Companies don't want
failures/ They are more willing to spend money on copying something from others since that is fast and
cheap.
Move worse is startup are difficult to survive, investors are not willing to invest on some people they have
no relation to because they cannot trust them.
The innovation policy is also not satisfying, the government doesn't have complete policies to protect
innovation and they don't have the complete plan for converting innovation into products.
While in Silicon Valley, people are living in another society. People no need to worry about where to stay
the next day or how much I should earn to get married. They can spend time on doing what they like to do.
They have the freedom to choose what to learn.
The environment there is also appealing, companies usually are willing to invest on innovation, they have
that kind of genes, they are proud of innovation. they are pleased to see what they create. Also they are not
so anxious about the result, they are willing to do long term investment.
If you have an idea which is attractive enough, there are many people who are willing to invest on you. So
it's easy for people to start their own business. Even if you fail, it doesn't matter. They don't want to fail, but
they can accept failures.
China is still undergoing a high speed economic booming. Many people are still fighting for living a good
life, In the future, when people are able to buying a house and having a car.. They may turn their attention to
more spiritual. At that time, it should be the spring of China's innovation.
But one thing we cannot deny is that the innovation environment should be improved in China now.