"Dennis Posadas' Rice & Chips illustrates the complexities and dynamics involved with creating a Pan-Asian Silicon Valley. Using examples and stories from each of the major Asian countries, Posadas reviews how each of the Asian countries has developed their technological platforms and provides a blueprint for potential future success as well." --Michael Edmondson, PhD, President MEAPA, Bioscience commercialization company in Oklahoma, USA
"Posadas makes a strong case for geographic proximity among universities, research institutes and industry as instrumental for the proliferation of start-ups emerging out of Silicon Valley, Route 128 and similar Asian nodes of technopreneurship. When we look at our ivory-towered universities and their isolation from the enclave economies in our industrial estates, it is obvious that location strategy has been driven by the economics of transportation of infrastructure, of real estate development and of tax/fiscal incentives and that the factors of synergy and complementation have been all but forgotten. --Federico C Gonzalez, President/CEO, PESO Inc.
"Venture Capital is at various stages of evolution and sophistication among the countries in the Asian region. Increased activity in this field is needed, particularly among the developing nations, in order to give another dimension to the funding and growth of their economies. Rice & Chips makes a valuable contribution by promoting venture capital in Asia, keeping it in the awareness of relevant people and showing what is being done in other countries." --Guillermo D. Luchangco, Chairman & CEO, Investment and Capital Corporation of the Philippines (ICCP) Group
Product Description
The success stories of Silicon Valley's technology startups have been well-studied and emulated across the world, but what truly makes Silicon Valley tick? And how can Asian countries develop the Silicon Valley model even further? Rice & Chip: Technopreneurship and Innovation in Asia enumerates the unwritten rules of innovation that have worked in Silicon Valley since the 1930s. Using these rules as a benchmark, author Dennis Posadas points out the similarities between Silicon Valley and Asian countries like China, Taiwan, India, Singapore and Korea. He tackles the research capabilities and venture capital infrastructure of these countries and explains how they have used the Silicon Valley model to develop their own technology startups.
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