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.
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The contributors study how centers of industrial and technological innovation such as Silicon Valley get started. These "clusters" have many entrepreneurial high tech firms in a small area which give rise to rapid economic growth. No other analysts have studied systematically how such clusters start, though many earlier works have studied Silicon Valley in its mature phase. The contributors show that the key public and business policy elements of starting up a cluster are common across many regions, countries, and time periods.
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High-Tech clusters can work complementary rather than competitive?,
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Authors of this book argue the essential difference between "start up" and "established" high-tech clusters. Their view of the role of outside/top-down power vs. internal/grass-route activity for these different phases is especially helpful to the people who are involved in planning or start up of these clusters. Certainly in flattening world century, success of the cluster is highly depend on recognitions of the other clusters in terms of technology opportunities, educated labor, flow of entrepreneurial talent and so on (there is no magic recipe!). It's true challenge even of these entrepreneurs to harmonize their own clusters complementarily rather than simply competitive with others.
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Clusters of high-tech industry, such as Silicon Valley, have received a great deal of attention from scholars and in the public policy arena. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
venture flows, venture financing activity, venture capital flows, other metro regions, nascent clusters, nontechnology industries, regional technology development, professional venture capital firm, quarterly flows, public venture capital, interfirm links, follower regions, treatment counties, successful clusters, flow growth rates, venture capital activity, wireless hardware, investee companies, venture capital finance, investee company, venture capital partnerships, venture capital industry, agglomeration economies, firm formation, venture activity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Silicon Valley, United States, Santa Clara, New York, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, United Kingdom, Research Triangle, New Haven, Orange County, Cambridgeshire County, Fairchild Semiconductor, Tel Aviv, South Cambridgeshire, Stanford University, Ann Arbor, Fort Worth, Hsinchu Science Park, Salt Lake City, San Mateo, Venture Economics, Enterprise Ireland, European Union, Hong Kong New!
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Silicon Valley, United States, Santa Clara, New York, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, United Kingdom, Research Triangle, New Haven, Orange County, Cambridgeshire County, Fairchild Semiconductor, Tel Aviv, South Cambridgeshire, Stanford University, Ann Arbor, Fort Worth, Hsinchu Science Park, Salt Lake City, San Mateo, Venture Economics, Enterprise Ireland, European Union, Hong Kong New!
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- Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence by David B. Yoffie on page 187, and page 188
- Geography and Trade (Gaston Eyskens Lectures) by Paul Krugman on page 278, and page 358
- Competing In The Age Of Digital Convergence by Harvard Business School Press on page 187, and page 188
- Markets for Technology: The Economics of Innovation and Corporate Strategy by Ashish Arora in Front Matter, and page 357
- The Venture Capital Cycle by Paul Gompers on page 278, and page 330
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- Exploring Innovation by David Smith on page 286, and page 288
- The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization (Routledge Studies in Global Competition) by Giovanna Vertova on page 144
- Innovation Policy and the Economy (NBER Innovation Policy and the Economy) (Volume 5) by Adam B. Jaffe on page 30
- Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm by Henry Chesbrough in Back Matter
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