Regional advantage culture and competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128

Regional advantage culture and competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 / AnnaLee Saxenian.

Why, in the '90s, did business flourish in California's Silicon Valley but decline along Route 128 in Massachusetts? The answer, Saxenian suggests, has to do with the fact that Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but cooperative industrial system while Route 128 came to be dominated b...

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Main Author: Saxenian, AnnaLee
Corporate Author: American Council of Learned Societies
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Series:History e-book project.
Subjects:
Since 1981
High technology industries > California, Northern.
High technology industries > Massachusetts.
Economic history > Regional disparities.
High technology industries.
United States > Economic conditions > 1981- > Regional disparities.
Massachusetts.
Northern California.
United States.
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Summary:Why, in the '90s, did business flourish in California's Silicon Valley but decline along Route 128 in Massachusetts? The answer, Saxenian suggests, has to do with the fact that Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but cooperative industrial system while Route 128 came to be dominated by independent, self-sufficient corporations.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 226 p. :) ill., maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-205) and index.
ISBN:0674753399
9780674753396
0674753402
9780674753402

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