The venture capital state: the Silicon Valley model in east Asia. By Robyn Klingler-Vidra.

摘要

Milton Friedman famously said: 'If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand' (p. n). The venture capital state offers high-powered ammunition against such neo-liberal attacks on the state. It argues that even quintessential neo-liberal bastions like Silicon Valley have been the result of the visible hand of the state. It is an important contribution to scholarship on entrepreneurship and venture policy along the lines of Josh Lerner's seminal Boulevard of broken dreams (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).