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

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 … [ Read more ]

The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy

Argonauts, Saxenian’s mythic term for global commuters employed in the high tech sector, are not the ominous invaders American economic isolationists fear-stealing jobs and ideas from Americans and spiriting them abroad. Rather, Saxenian argues, such global entrepreneurs have created domestic and foreign jobs and reduced the cost of technology for businesses and consumers. Saxenian is at her best when describing the relatively short history of … [ Read more ]