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Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128

Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128

by Annalee Saxenian (Author)

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Synopsis

Why is it that business in Silicon Valley is again flourishing while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it continues to decline? The answer, Sexanian suggests, has to do with the fact that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but co-operative industrial system while Route 128 came to be dominated by independent, self-sufficient corporations. The result of more than 100 interviews, this analysis highlights the importance of local sources of competitive advantage in a volatile world economy.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 05 Mar 1996
ISBN 10: 0674753402
ISBN 13: 9780674753402

Media Reviews
A welcome addition to the growing literature on American high technology, offering fresh insights in a thorough...account of the economic and technological evolution of America's premier high-technology regions. -- Richard Florida Science Regional Advantage is an impressive demonstration of why new technologies and new markets both create and are driven by new business models and corporate structures. -- Michael Stern San Francisco Chronicle Saxenian's findings are important because they highlight the fundamental organizational practices behind California's economic successes in several key sectors, a reality dangerously ignored by many of the state's political and business leaders. -- David Friedman Los Angeles Times The best book I've seen at analyzing the secrets of Silicon Valley's success. And it shows why the valley's future remains bright even though costs are high. -- James J. Mitchell San Jose Mercury News This is scholarship at its best-thoroughly researched, elegantly written, a compelling story that's relevant to business executives and policymakers everywhere. -- John Case Boston Globe Over the past decade however there has been a growing interest in the role which territory (in the form of regions, industrial districts or innovative milieux)plays in fostering technical change and industrialinnovation...One of the many virtues of this book is the way it penetrates beneath these superficial similarities, exposing a more complex, more telling set of differences which help to explain the very different fortunes of these regions in recent years...what we have here is a well-researched, elegantly written and provocative book on a subject which should engage a wide array of disciplines, especially those with an interest in innovation and regional development. -- Kevin Morgan Research Review
Author Bio
AnnaLee Saxenian is Dean of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.