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Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy: Models, Perspectives, and Best Practices

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For people who want to get an overview of global clusters, what they are, what they can do to a nation's innovation system and its economy, what they have in common and how they differ in these global regions.

It is easy reading and gives a good global perspective. It highlights the local traits and permits comparisons with other geographical clusters, although it does not go as indepth one may hope for further academic research. Given the interview based research style, however, it keeps it lively and is not as "dry" as many other academics books.

The book makes clear that Silicon Valley and Boston's Route 128 are no longer the only innovation clusters.

Dr. Martin Haemmig / Switzerland
Adj. Professor for Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship
in Europe and USA

This book may have been useful back when the sock pocket was a big celebrity. In today's marketplace, this book just doesn't add any significant value. I have respect for the authors since I have heard them speak in San Francisco. It's too bad the hype doesn't live up to my expectations. The Internet Economy of the late 90s deserves better.

I've always been fascinated by THE Silicon Valley, CA and interested in understanding the factors that continue to shape it.
This book brings to light the "other" Silicon Valleys around the world and what shaped them. Several chapters are written by country experts who understand their regions very well.
I thoroughly ENJOYED reading this book and have recommended it to others.

When I first bought this book, I could not wait to read it. Unfortunately the book is more hype than anything else. At times I felt like I should spend a day in the library reading articles on microfiche and saved the money I spent.

It is sad since I have heard the authors in Paris many, many times and now I feel like I was cheated. It is a shame.

I found this to be an important work given our increasingly global business environment. The international collaboration of the authors, coupled with the book's focus, provide an important basis upon which we can begin to understand how the international business environment operates today.

This book is a fascinating read and, I beleive, essential for anyone in business whether they're local, regional or international. Its insights and up-to-date examples will help me provide my clients with the tools they need, as to training, network dynamics and quality of life considerations, to better compete in the information economy.

Ron Berman, President
Ron Berman Marketing and Advertising Services

Saperstein and Rouach have achieved a multi-layered analysis of the new global economy, focusing on countries whose institutions recognize and invest in human intellectual resources and foster a synergy of government, commerce and education.
As well as examining economic giants, this book provides a fascinating account of how small countries like Sweden, Ireland and Israel have prospered by finding unique niches in the world marketplace, rather than attempting to replicate American models. Instead of providing a one-way channel for a continuation of the "brain-drain," these countries have adapted to the new economic paradigm by better protecting and keeping more of their most precious assets, the wealth of their best and brightest.
Saperstein and Rouach have also produced a highly readable text, mixing history with narrative, case studies and interviews that capture both the long view of economic evolution and the people and companies that have place their stamps on the new economy.
Lastly, this book provides the optimistic theme that economic reform and investment in humuman resources provides the surest path to both individual dignity and a stable political and social climate.

Rick Isaacson, Ph.D.
Dept. of Speech and Communication Studies
San Francisco State Univeristy