Submission + - Google launches $2 billion Shanzhai Makerspace project
“Google have reconstructed the industrial swarm ecosystem famous for rapid innovation in Shenzhen, China”, said Larry Page, The CEO of Google. This big data analysis includes key manufacturing and distribution resources on electronics, mechanics, optics, material science, even chemistry.
Product types distribution of 375,284 Shenzhen enterprises are analyzed as a scale-free network. Central nodes include components distribution (blue), mold injection (orange), prototyping (cyan), OEM & ODM (green), and design house (yellow). Finally, cost of rebuilding the Shenzhen industry ecosystem is estimated as $1819 million. 28 central distributors and factories average value $32 million. 342 long tailed innovative works average value $ 2.7 million.
Google invested $ 2 billion to build the analysis result of Shenzhen into the Google Shanzhai Makerspace in Mountain view, California. Five Walmart sized manufacturing and shopping centers, as well as one public zone building are included. The name is in remember of Shanzhai, the famous underground mobile phone industry swarm ecosystem in Shenzhen.
Beta test of Shanzhai is opening on 2014.10.1.