Innovation centers - what does the future look like?

Came across an interesting NY Times Tom Friedman article about Indian entrepreneurship ecosystem that goes like this - Do Believe the Hype!

More recently, CNN's Fareed Zakaria makes a strong case about growing innovation centers, where thousands of research scientists are working on cutting edge projects - in small city states like Singapore.



Questions to ponder are : who says innovation is limited to one country? Where is the next big disruptive idea coming from? With ease of access to knowledge and more and more open resources flattening the world, would new business models come from the most unlikely regions- such as a garage in New Delhi or a village in Kenya?