<p>Re-creating New York is even more difficult. Bloomberg knows he’s got a unique asset, and is taking Machiavellian steps to increase its value. He’s already got NYU and Columbia. He’s trying to build an empire, while jabbing the NYC institutions with his rhetoric regarding the “void” of scientific entrepreneurship. If the Pied Piper music of Wall Street weren’t so powerful, engineers and applied scientists from places like Columbia might be more interested in scientific entrepreneurship. Let’s see how scientists from a place like Stanford behave once they breath the Wall Street air.</p>