Building High-Tech Clusters Silicon Valley and Beyond

The contributors study how centers of industrial and technological innovation such as Silicon Valley get started. These "clusters" have many entrepreneurial high tech firms in a small area which give rise to rapid economic growth. No other analysts have studied systematically how such clusters start, though many earlier works have studied Silicon Valley in its mature phase. The contributors show that the key public and business policy elements of starting up a cluster are common across many regions, countries, and time periods.Bresnahan, Timothy is the author of 'Building High-Tech Clusters Silicon Valley and Beyond' with ISBN 9780521827225 and ISBN 0521827221.