North America has more platform firms creating value, as measured by market capitalization, than any other region in the world. Platform firms in china, with its large, homogeneous market, are growing fast. Platform businesses in Europe, with its more fragmented market, have less than a quarter the value of such firms in North America, and the developing regions of Africa and Latin America are not far behind.

Source: Peter Evans, Center for Global Enterprise.

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