On arrival in France at Lyon’s Saint Exupéry Airport, you wouldn't picture the Alps city of Grenoble as a major French tech hub or a challenger to Paris.
The taxi driver tells me the city is more than 60 miles away. The journey will take more than an hour. Compare that to the 30 minute-drive from San Francisco airport to Silicon Valley. Grenoble already broke a cardinal tech cluster rule: easy transportation links to the rest of the world.
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