Apple. Anthropic. Disney Research. Google. Meta. Microsoft. NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim R&D hubs from all of these companies. Fewer still are concentrated in a city of just over 400,000 people—roughly half the size of San Francisco. Over the past two decades, however, many of the world’s most influential technology companies…
Historically, global companies have expanded into China through joint ventures with local companies. It is now easier than ever to expand into China alone through a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise.