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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 San Francisco Chronicle 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 Los Angeles Times 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 San Jose Mercury News This is scholarship at its best-thoroughly researched, elegantly written, a compelling story that's relevant to business executives and policymakers everywhere. -- John Case Boston Globe 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 industrialinnovation 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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Why is it that business in Silicon Valley is again flourishing while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it continues to decline? The answer, Sexanian suggests, has to do with the fact that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but co-operative industrial system while Route 128 came to be dominated by independent, self-sufficient corporations. The result of more than 100 interviews, this analysis highlights the importance of local sources of competitive advantage in a volatile world economy.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Regional Advantage is an interesting analysis of why pioneering high tech companies in the Rt. 128 Boston area lost their technical and market dominance to silicon valley start-ups. Firms such as Digital Equipment, Wang Computer, Prime Computer, Apollo Computer were either acquired or dissolved while their Silicon Valley competitors Sun Micro Systems, HP, Cisco, 3Com, Silicon Graphics and others gained marketshare and technical leadership. Saxenien's analysis suggests that the major variable is in the culture of openniness, communication, cooperation and partnering between firms in Silicon Valley versus the buttoned-down, closed and proprietary nature of New England managers was the significant difference. Having worked in both Silicon Valley and East coast high tech firms, I support her hypothesis. While not a page turner and one night read, for those of us exposed to both enviornments, Anno Saxenian's effort (which was her doctorial thesis at MIT) is an interesting look at the evolution and transference of technical leadership from east to west.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Structural Analysis
21 Feb 2000
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Contrary to one of the other reviewer's comments, the importance of this book is in showing precicely that it is not the "endemic" culture of Silicon Valley, but rather the innovative institutions and networked relationships in Silicon Valley that explains the region's success. A great contribution to the literature on embeddedness and network forms of organization.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A great examination of the influences of business-culture
13 May 1998
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This book was recommended to me by a VP at Sun Microsystems to explain why Silicon Valley happened [open-org-networks and strong entrepreneurial initiatives] and how other communities can learn from this success. The answers to why and why-not for a community are found embedded in the local or regional business culture. How close-minded is your town?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Very informative, great piece of work
20 July 2005
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The book is written by a person who lived in the Route 128 area and in the Silicon Valley. Besides the great insights and fantastic scholarly work, the book reflects the experience of seeing the development of both regions, not only through the eyes of a scholar, but also through the experiences that can only be gained by "being there."
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