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Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128
  

Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Hardcover)

by AnnaLee Saxenian (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press (1 Jun 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0674753399
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674753396
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,401,663 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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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.

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Silicon Valley in California and Route 128 in Massachusetts are America's centres of electronics innovation and entrepreneurship. The regions are similar in many respects: both trace their origins to unversity research and military spending, and both faced severe downturns in the early 1980s. Today, however, Silicon Valley is flourishing again while Route 128 continues to decline. Why did Silicon Valley adapt successfully to intensifying international competition, while Route 128 ceded its longstanding advantage in computer design and manufacturing to the west? The author argues that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed the type of decentralized industrial system that encourages experimentation, collaboration and collective learning among networks of specialist companies, whereas Route 128 came to be dominated by a few self-sufficient corporations. Saxenian demonstrates that Route 128 was slow to adjust to changing markets because skill and technology remained confined within independent firms. In contrast, companies in Silicon Valley created a regional advantage by drawing on local knowledge and relationships to create new markets, products and applications. In doing so, they blurred the traditional boundaries among customers, supplier and competitors. The result of numerous interviews with executives, entrepreneurs and policymakers, this analysis highlights the importance of local sources of competitive advantage in a volatile world economy. It also underscores the need to develop regional, as well as national and sectoral, economic policies.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Dry reading, but interesting insights into high tech., 5 Aug 1999
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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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