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Regional Advantage

Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, With a New Preface by the Author

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$36.00 • £31.95 • €32.95

ISBN 9780674753402

Publication Date: 03/01/1996

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240 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

6 graphs, 2 maps, 5 tables

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This is scholarship at its best—thoroughly researched, elegantly written, a compelling story that’s relevant to business executives and policymakers everywhere.—John Case, The Boston Globe

The best book I’ve seen at analyzing the secrets of Silicon Valley’s success. And it shows why the valley’s future remains bright even though costs are high.—James J. Mitchell, The San Jose Mercury News

Saxenian’s findings are important because they highlight the fundamental organizational practices behind California’s economic successes in several key sectors, a reality dangerously ignored by many of the state’s political and business leaders.—David Friedman, The Los Angeles Times

A welcome addition to the growing literature on American high technology, offering fresh insights in a thorough…account of the economic and technological evolution of America’s premier high-technology regions.—Richard Florida, Science

Regional Advantage is an impressive demonstration of why new technologies and new markets both create and are driven by new business models and corporate structures.—Michael Stern, The San Francisco Chronicle

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 industrial innovation… 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 fortunes of these regions in recent years… What we have here is a well-researched, elegantly written and provocative book on a subject which should engage a wide array of disciplines, especially those with an interest in innovation and regional development.—Kevin Morgan, Research Review

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