After visiting Okinawa, Japan, and meeting with global experts on innovation, I’ve come to the conclusion that Silicon Valley’s greatest advantage isn’t its diversity; it is the fact that it accepts and glorifies failure. Like many other countries, Japan has tried replicating Silicon Valley. It built fancy tech parks, provided subsidies for R&D, and even created a magnificent new

By any measure you care to use, British newsman Peter Preston deserves respect.

A former editor of the Guardian, the paper’s investigative reporting on his watch – including the infamous ‘cash for questions’ scandal – hastened the (admittedly