Sitting in Silicon Valley last month, listening to start-ups and tech evangelists while looking at this story on the European Commission’s plans for free WiFi in public spaces, it felt as if the rest of the world – and far away Europe – was very dated. Is that an inevitable perspective from that unique vantage point which is also somehow an aberration ? Or is it that the fast-moving world of technology and start-ups offer important lessons in innovation demanding a very different sort of leadership to succeed, one that is based on collaboration ?