Building High-Tech Clusters

Klappentext Examines how clusters of industrial and technological innovation such as Silicon Valley get started. Zusammenfassung This book was first published in 2004. The contributors study how clusters of industrial and technological innovation such as Silicon Valley get started. They show that the key public and business policy elements of starting up a cluster are common across many regions! countries! and time periods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of contributors; 1. Introduction Timothy Bresnahan and Alfonso Gambardella; 2. Learning the Silicon Valley way Gordon Moore and Kevin Davis; 3. Israel's Silicon Wadi: the forces behind cluster formation Catherine de Fontenay and Erran Carmel; 4. In the footsteps of Silicon Valley? Indian and Irish software in the international division of labor Ashish Arora, Alfonso Gambardella and Salvatore Torrisi; 5. Agglomeration and growth: a study of the Cambridge hi-tech cluster Suma Athreye; 6. Clusters, competition, and 'global players' in ICT markets: the case of Scandinavia John E. Richards; 7. Taiwan's Hsinchu region: imitator and partner for Silicon Valley AnnaLee Saxenian; 8. The role of government in regional technology development: the effects of public venture capital and science parks Scott Wallsten; 9. Imitating Silicon Valley: regional comparisons of innovation activity based on venture capital flows Michael Horvath; 10. Old economy inputs for new-economy outcomes: what have we learned? Timothy Bresnahan and Alfonso Gambardella; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Timothy Bresnahan, Alfonso Gambardella
• Con la collaborazione di: Timothy Bresnahan (Editore), Alfonso Gambardella (Editore), Gambardella Alfonso (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.04.2004
• EAN: 9780521827225
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82722-5
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Altro; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, North America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Information technology industries, South East Asia, Economic Geography, Economic history, Political Economy, Sociology & anthropology, North America (USA and Canada), Sociology and anthropology