Regional Advantage
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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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Regional Advantage

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

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Why is it that in the '90s, business in California's Silicon Valley flourished, while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it declined? The answer, Annalee Saxenian suggests, has to do with the fact that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but cooperative industrial system while Route 128 came to be dominated by independent, self-sufficient corporations. The result of more than one hundred interviews, this compelling analysis highlights the importance of local sources of competitive advantage in a volatile world economy.

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Year
1996
ISBN
9780674418042

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface to the Paperback Edition
  3. Prologue
  4. Introduction: Local Industrial Systems
  5. 1. Genesis: Universities, Military Spending, and Entrepreneurs
  6. 2. Silicon Valley: Competition and Community
  7. 3. Route 128: Independence and Hierarchy
  8. 4. Betting on a Product
  9. 5. Running with Technology
  10. 6. Inside Out: Blurring Firms' Boundaries
  11. Conclusion: Protean Places
  12. Notes
  13. Historical Data
  14. Definitions and Data Sources
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Index