Building High-Tech Clusters
Silicon Valley and Beyond
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- Timothy Bresnahan, Stanford University, California
- Alfonso Gambardella, Università degli Studi, Pisa
- Date Published: June 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521143486
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The contributions to this study of the origins of centers of industrial and technological innovation (such as Silicon Valley) reveal that these concentrated "clusters" of entrepreneurial high tech firms are characterized by rapid economic growth. No other analysts have examined how such clusters start, although many earlier works have studied Silicon Valley. The study's contributors conclude that the key public and business policy elements of starting a cluster are common to many regions, countries, and time periods.
Read more- Systematic look at the reasons behind Silicon Valley's success and how replicable that success is elsewhere
- Editors are internationally well known, as are contributors G. Moore (founder of Intel), A. Arora, A. Saxenian, M. Horvath
- No math; will appeal to audiences in economics, public policy, sociology and all area studies
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Review of the hardback: 'By covering a wide range of cases around the world they can make meaningful comparisons and contrasts … a collection of essays with a clear purpose and in a coherent manner … is certainly a book worth reading and recommending.' Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
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- Date Published: June 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521143486
- length: 384 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.56kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
List of contributors
1. Introduction Timothy Bresnahan and Alfonso Gambardella
2. Learning the Silicon Valley way Gordon Moore and Kevin Davis
3. Israel's Silicon Wadi: the forces behind cluster formation Catherine de Fontenay and Erran Carmel
4. In the footsteps of Silicon Valley? Indian and Irish software in the international division of labor Ashish Arora, Alfonso Gambardella and Salvatore Torrisi
5. Agglomeration and growth: a study of the Cambridge hi-tech cluster Suma Athreye
6. Clusters, competition, and 'global players' in ICT markets: the case of Scandinavia John E. Richards
7. Taiwan's Hsinchu region: imitator and partner for Silicon Valley AnnaLee Saxenian
8. The role of government in regional technology development: the effects of public venture capital and science parks Scott Wallsten
9. Imitating Silicon Valley: regional comparisons of innovation activity based on venture capital flows Michael Horvath
10. Old economy inputs for new-economy outcomes: what have we learned? Timothy Bresnahan and Alfonso Gambardella
Index.
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