Are so-called ‘clone startups’ (those hoping to be acquired by the mothership after creating a successful ‘local language lookalike’) too easily dismissed as ‘non-innovators’?

If they are essential to kick-starting their local innovation ecosystem, doesn’t this make them ‘innovation facilitators’ which are just as important as ‘genuinely innovative startups’?

We ‘innovation investment journalists’ often succumb to a powerful tendency to get swept away with our own innovation-fixated rhetoric, which results in a sentiment like this:

“There just doesn’t seem to be anything important enough to write about on the startup scene in that country because they’re mostly just clones making copycat versions of existing blockbusters: calling it ‘vibrant’ or even ‘innovative’ would be an insult to my readers’ intelligence”.

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